Capgemini, Google Cloud expand partnership for sovereign AI solutions
PARIS, FRANCE, and CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES — Capgemini announced an expanded strategic partnership with Google Cloud to deliver end-to-end, secure, sovereign cloud solutions that integrate advanced artificial intelligence.
The partnership enables clients to adopt Google Cloud’s Vertex AI and Gemini Enterprise technologies while maintaining strict data residency and compliance mandates within isolated environments.
New deployment models for data sovereignty
The move delivers a variety of sovereign deployments, and clients are free to select the most suitable model between Google Cloud, Google Cloud Dedicated, and Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) air-gap models.
Capgemini has attained GDC partner status and is currently an approved GDC air-gapped operator. This positions the company to provide fully managed sovereign cloud experiences to organizations that require complete separation from the public internet to meet European and international regulatory requirements.
As Fernando Alvarez, Chief Strategy and Development Officer and Group Executive Board member at Capgemini, notes, “Becoming a Google Cloud air-gapped operator enables us to further provide trusted and secure end-to-end sovereign solutions that enable resilience, help maintain autonomy and security, and foster innovation at scale.”
To sustain these offerings, Capgemini aims to establish a Google Sovereign Cloud Delivery Practice and Center of Excellence (CoE) committed to meeting unique sovereign needs.
The sovereign capabilities of Capgemini are also enhanced by its recent acquisitions of Syniti, an expert in large-scale transformation of SAP data, and Cloud4C, a provider of managed services that can be automated and operated in hybrid and sovereign cloud environments.
Integrating Gemini AI for secure operations
Through the partnership, the organizations will be able to roll out Gemini-based hyper-automated cloud operations to improve cybersecurity, resiliency, disaster recovery, and sovereign-aligned compliance frameworks.
The shared expertise can be used to deliver mission-critical operations, such as secure logistics planning, threat analysis, and operational decision support, using information entirely within secure enclaves.
Capgemini brings decades of experience enabling AI-led digital transformation across more than 50 countries.
“Capgemini is a vital partner in this initiative, helping customers use Google Sovereign Cloud to accelerate digital transformation while maintaining the highest standards of data integrity and sovereignty,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, President, Global Partner Ecosystem at Google Cloud.
Combined with Google Cloud’s AI technology stack, the two companies aim to deliver safe, compliant innovation for high-value business processes while accelerating unified legal, data, and operational control for organizations operating under complex regulatory landscapes.
Capgemini ranked #5 in the OA500 2025, an objective index of the world’s top 500 outsourcing companies. The 2026 edition of the OA500 is expected to be released in March. (Read the OA500 2026 methodology paper here.)
