Migration from global hyperscalers to Indian cloud infrastructure sets a national benchmark for sovereign, mission-critical AI deployment.
Yotta Data Services has announced the successful deployment of BHASHINI’s end-to-end sovereign AI cloud platform on Yotta’s Government Community Cloud (GCC) and Shakti Cloud, marking a major milestone under the IndiaAI Mission.
With this transition, BHASHINI—India’s national multilingual AI and language platform—now operates entirely on Indian cloud and GPU infrastructure, ensuring that language datasets, AI models, and citizen interactions remain within India’s sovereign jurisdiction. The move underscores India’s growing capability to build, secure, and scale population-scale AI systems on indigenous infrastructure.
A National Reference Architecture for Sovereign AI
The joint initiative establishes a national reference architecture for Indian enterprises and government institutions transitioning from global hyperscalers to sovereign AI cloud platforms. It demonstrates how Yotta’s indigenous cloud and NVIDIA H100-powered GPU infrastructure, combined with BHASHINI’s national AI stack, can deliver mission-critical AI workloads at scale without compromising performance, security, or resilience.
Shri Abhishek Singh, IAS, Additional Secretary, MeitY; CEO, IndiaAI Mission; and Director General, NIC, said, “The successful migration of BHASHINI to indigenous cloud and GPU platforms demonstrates that India can build, scale, and secure sovereign AI systems for the public good. It reinforces the IndiaAI Mission’s vision of population-scale, real-time AI services tailored to India’s unique needs.”
Shri Amitabh Nag, CEO, Digital India BHASHINI Division, added, “Moving to Yotta’s sovereign AI cloud gives BHASHINI greater control, resilience, and scalability. This transformation strengthens India’s digital public infrastructure for AI and provides a blueprint for future sovereign deployments.”
This landmark achievement was showcased at ‘The India AI Sovereignty Dialogues’, an official Pre-Summit Event of the AI Impact Summit 2026, hosted by Yotta and the Digital India BHASHINI Division. The event also saw the launch of the ‘Sovereign AI Cloud Transformation Report’, documenting real-world outcomes from the deployment.
Proven at Population Scale: Maha Kumbh 2025
The report draws from BHASHINI’s real-world deployment at Maha Kumbh 2025, the world’s largest religious gathering, where multilingual AI services were tested at unprecedented population scale. Powered by Yotta’s Shakti Cloud, the platform delivered real-time translation and voice-based assistance in 11+ Indian languages, including the multilingual AI assistant ‘Kumbh Sah’AI’yak’.
The hyperscaler-to-sovereign-cloud migration delivered:
- Up to 40% performance improvement
- 20–30% cost savings
- 99.99% sustained uptime
The migration was completed with zero data loss, covering over 200 TiB of data and 3.5 billion files, validating the robustness of India’s sovereign AI infrastructure.
Ms. Kavita Bhatia, COO, IndiaAI Mission, said, “BHASHINI’s transition proves that national digital public goods can be securely scaled on Indian infrastructure without sacrificing performance. It sets a strong foundation for future public-sector AI initiatives.”
Mr. Sunil Gupta, Co-Founder, Managing Director & CEO, Yotta Data Services, said, “This deployment marks a defining moment in India’s data sovereignty journey. It validates that hyperscale, mission-critical AI platforms can be built and operated entirely on sovereign, open, and interoperable infrastructure.”
Open, Cloud-Agnostic, and Future-Ready
Executed over two to three months, the migration covered BHASHINI’s complete AI stack—including multilingual datasets, models, APIs, containerised services, orchestration pipelines, databases, and storage. The new architecture leverages open-source, cloud-agnostic technologies, ensuring vendor neutrality, strategic autonomy, and long-term scalability.
Designed as a modular and reusable framework, the deployed environment can be adopted across ministries, public sector units, and large national programmes, providing a clear roadmap for hyperscaler-to-Indian-cloud transitions.
This collaboration reinforces India’s ambition to position AI as a secure, inclusive, and sovereign digital public utility, driving economic growth, digital inclusion, and global technological leadership.
