Yotta shifts BHASHINI from hyperscalers to an open source, cloud-agnostic Shakti Cloud stack, keeping all data in India while boosting performance and cutting costs.
Yotta Data Services has completed the deployment of BHASHINI’s full sovereign AI cloud transformation on its Government Community Cloud (GCC) and Shakti Cloud, moving the national language platform entirely onto indigenous infrastructure. The system now runs exclusively on Indian cloud and GPU resources, with all language datasets, models and citizen interactions confined within Indian jurisdiction, ensuring complete data sovereignty.
The milestone aligns directly with IndiaAI Mission objectives and signals a decisive shift toward self-reliant, scalable sovereign AI systems capable of operating without foreign hyperscalers.
At the core of the migration is an open source, cloud-agnostic and interoperable architecture designed to ensure vendor neutrality and long-term strategic autonomy. The framework is modular and reusable, enabling ministries, public sector units and national programmes to replicate hyperscaler-to-Indian-cloud transitions.
Operational metrics underline the shift’s viability. The deployment recorded up to 40 percent performance gains, 20–30 percent cost savings, 99.99 percent uptime and zero data loss while migrating more than 200 TiB of data and over 3.5 billion files. Executed within two to three months, the transition covered BHASHINI’s complete AI stack, including datasets, models, APIs, containerised services, orchestration pipelines, databases and storage.
The platform was validated at Maha Kumbh 2025, delivering real-time translation and voice assistance across 11+ Indian languages using NVIDIA H100-enabled Shakti Cloud.
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.”
Shri Abhishek Singh, IAS, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology; CEO, IndiaAI Mission; and Director General, National Informatics Centre, added, “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.”
