Cirrascale Cloud Services, a managed infrastructure provider, said it will deliver Google's Gemini artificial intelligence model as a fully air-gapped appliance that runs entirely disconnected from the internet.
The system is manufactured by Dell, certified by Google, and operates through Google Distributed Cloud, the search giant's platform for running its services outside its own data centres.
The offering is aimed at regulated sectors such as financial services, healthcare and defence, where organisations have been reluctant to adopt cloud-based AI tools because of concerns around data control and sovereignty.
Cirrascale said the appliance is designed to eliminate the tradeoff between model capability and data privacy, delivering the full Gemini model rather than a reduced version.
"It is full blown Gemini. It's not pulled," chief executive Dave Driggers told VentureBeat.
Each appliance contains eight Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs) and uses confidential computing, a security architecture in which the model runs in volatile memory and is erased entirely when the power is cut.
User sessions operate through caches that clear automatically, and any attempt to breach the confidential computing environment triggers a device lockdown.
A locked device must be returned to Cirrascale, Dell or Google for remediation before it can be brought back into service.
The company described several deployment and billing options, including per-seat licences, per-token pricing and flat appliance rates, with a single dedicated server as the minimum commitment.
Preview access is available immediately, with general availability expected in June or July.
For organisations that maintain permanent air gaps and never permit external connectivity, Driggers said model updates to newer versions of Gemini can be delivered as a physical server swap.
Customers that maintain a private connection can receive updates over that link instead.
The launch reflects a broader trend among AI providers seeking to extend frontier model capabilities into environments where public cloud access is either impractical or prohibited by regulation.
Google has been expanding its Distributed Cloud offering as a means of reaching sovereign and highly regulated workloads, while rivals including Microsoft and Amazon Web Services have developed similar on-premises AI products for government and defence clients.
The recap
- Cirrascale will run Google Gemini on a private, air-gapped appliance.
- Appliance includes eight Nvidia GPUs with confidential computing protections.
- Preview starts immediately; general availability expected in June or July.
