Yotta Completes Sovereign AI Cloud Migration for BHASHINI on Indian infrastructure

Yotta Data Services has announced the successful deployment of BHASHINI’s end-to-end sovereign AI cloud transformation on its Government Community Cloud and Shakti Cloud, marking a major step in India’s push for self-reliant artificial intelligence infrastructure.

The milestone was highlighted at “The India AI Sovereignty Dialogues,” a pre-summit event of the AI Impact Summit 2026, alongside the launch of a Sovereign AI Cloud Transformation Report.

The report draws on a real-world deployment at the Maha Kumbh 2025, where BHASHINI’s multilingual AI services ran at population scale using Yotta’s NVIDIA H100-powered infrastructure. The system delivered real-time translation and voice assistance across more than 11 Indian languages.

According to the companies, the migration demonstrated that national digital public goods can move from hyperscaler platforms to indigenous infrastructure while improving performance by up to 40 percent, cutting costs by 20–30 percent and maintaining 99.99 percent uptime with no data loss across more than 200 TiB of data.

Shri Abhishek Singh, IAS, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology; CEO, IndiaAI Mission; and Director General, National Informatics Centre, said, “The successful migration of Bhashini to indigenous cloud and GPU platforms demonstrates that India can build, scale, and secure its sovereign AI systems for the public good. It underscores the IndiaAI Mission’s vision of developing sovereign compute capacity, models and deploying AI applications that are responsive to India’s unique requirements, including the delivery of reliable, real-time, voice-based services at population scale.”

Shri Amitabh Nag, CEO, 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.”

Ms. Kavita Bhatia, COO, IndiaAI Mission, said, “BHASHINI’s transition to a fully sovereign AI cloud is a significant milestone in IndiaAI Mission’s effort to build population-scale AI on Indian infrastructure. It demonstrates that national digital public goods can be securely scaled on indigenous, open platforms without compromising performance. This deployment sets a strong blueprint for future public sector AI initiatives.”

Shri Sunil Gupta, Co-Founder, Managing Director and CEO, Yotta Data Services, said, “Yotta’s successful deployment of BHASHINI on Shakti cloud marks a defining moment for India’s data sovereignty journey. 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.”

Executed over a two-to-three-month period, the migration covered BHASHINI’s complete AI stack, including multilingual datasets, models, APIs, containerised services, orchestration pipelines, databases, and storage. The new architecture adopts open-source, cloud-agnostic components, reinforcing long-term vendor neutrality, and strategic autonomy.

The deployed environment has been designed as a modular and reusable reference framework that can be adopted across ministries, public sector units, and large-scale national programs.

It provides a clear blueprint for hyperscaler-to-Indian-cloud transitions and reinforces India’s ambition to position AI as a secure, inclusive, and sovereign public utility that supports economic growth, digital inclusion, and technological leadership.