In a move aimed at strengthening data sovereignty and national AI capability, a major Digital Public Infrastructure platform has completed a full transition to Indian cloud systems.
India-based cloud service provider Yotta Data Services and the Digital India BHASHINI Division have moved BHASHINI’s language AI platform from a global hyperscaler to an Indian cloud environment. The platform is now running on Yotta’s Government Community Cloud and Shakti Cloud, ensuring that all datasets, AI models, and user interactions remain within India’s jurisdiction and legal framework.
The migration was demonstrated at a pre-summit event ahead of the India AI Impact Summit 2026. It builds on a recent large-scale deployment during Maha Kumbh 2025, where BHASHINI supported translation and voice-based services in more than 11 Indian languages. According to the press release, the platform handled real-time requests at population scale, including through a multilingual assistant designed for event visitors.
As per details shared, the migration took around 2 to 3 months and covered BHASHINI’s entire AI stack. This included multilingual datasets, AI models, APIs, containerised services, orchestration pipelines, databases, and storage systems. The platform now runs on Yotta’s Shakti Cloud, powered by Nvidia H100 GPUs, and is built using open-source and cloud-agnostic technologies.
The release stated that more than 200 terabytes of data and over 3.5 billion files were migrated without any data loss. The platform has also been developed as a modular and reusable framework, allowing it to be adopted by ministries, public sector units, and large national programmes.
Amitabh Nag, CEO of the Digital India BHASHINI Division, said, “The move to Yotta’s sovereign AI cloud gives BHASHINI greater control, resilience, and scalability as it continues to serve India’s linguistic diversity. This transformation strengthens our ability to deliver inclusive, real-time multilingual services and marks a major step forward for Digital Public Infrastructure in AI. It will also serve as a blueprint for future deployments as we transition to a fully sovereign stack.”
For Yotta Data Services, the project is being positioned as a demonstration of India’s capability to run large-scale AI workloads domestically. Sunil Gupta, Co-founder, Managing Director and CEO, Yotta Data Services, said, “This transition highlights that hyperscale, mission-critical AI platforms can be built and operated entirely on sovereign infrastructure, without compromise. The project validates India’s ability to run advanced AI workloads on open, interoperable architectures and reflects Yotta’s capability to build and operate digital infrastructure at national scale.”
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