Key Highlights
- Apple is bringing Private Cloud Compute to Google Cloud for the first time.
- The deployment will use Nvidia Blackwell GPUs and confidential computing technology.
- System designed to support complex AI tasks requiring higher computing power.
Apple is expanding its Private Cloud Compute (PCC) system to Google Cloud, marking the first time the company’s AI processing platform will operate outside Apple-owned data centres.
The move is aimed at supporting more advanced AI workloads that need greater computing power than devices can handle on their own.
According to Apple, PCC will continue to process requests that involve more demanding tasks such as reasoning and tool use.
The deployment on Google Cloud will use Nvidia Blackwell GPUs along with Confidential Computing technology to support server-side inference for Apple Foundation Models.
The announcement comes after Apple’s earlier collaboration with Google on the next generation of Apple Foundation Models, which Apple said uses technologies behind Google’s Gemini family of AI models.
Apple also discussed updates to Apple Intelligence during its Worldwide Developers Conference, where the company highlighted future AI developments across devices and cloud systems.
Security Model to Continue on Google Cloud
Private Cloud Compute was first introduced in 2024 as Apple’s cloud-based system for AI requests that require more computing resources than on-device models can provide.
Until now, the infrastructure operated only through Apple-controlled systems. With the new deployment, Apple said it will maintain the same security protections even though the infrastructure is hosted through Google Cloud.
According to the company, PCC’s security model includes stateless computation, non-targetability and no privileged runtime access, while also using enforceable privacy guarantees and transparency measures.
The setup will also use Intel CPUs with Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) and Google’s Titan chip, alongside Nvidia’s confidential computing features to help protect sensitive workloads.
Apple said devices will only trust PCC software that has been cryptographically approved by the company, regardless of where the infrastructure is hosted.
The company also plans to publish PCC binaries for public inspection and expand access for security researchers through the Apple Security Bounty programme. Researchers will reportedly be able to access live PCC nodes operating in a research mode.
Part of Apple and Google’s Growing AI Partnership
The latest move follows a broader partnership between Apple and Google.
In January 2026, the companies signed a multi-year agreement covering Google’s AI models and cloud infrastructure for Apple consumer devices.
Apple has also previously used Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) for training AI models, while reports earlier this year suggested the two companies had discussed using Google’s AI systems for the next version of Siri.
Apple said more technical details around PCC on Google Cloud will be shared later this month at the Confidential Computing Summit, with additional security protections expected to roll out over the summer.