Apple's Private AI Will Run on Google's Servers

Monday June 8, 2026 4:00 pm PDT by Juli Clover

Apple today said it is expanding Private Cloud Compute (PCC) beyond its data centers, partnering with Google and NVIDIA to run Apple Intelligence workloads on Google Cloud.

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Private Cloud Compute is Apple's cloud intelligence system for private AI processing, used to keep ‌Apple Intelligence‌ requests secure while handling processing in the cloud. PCC has been limited to Apple silicon servers in Apple data centers, but Apple is now relying on Google servers to handle some ‌Apple Intelligence‌ processing.

Apple partnered with Google to use the technologies behind Google's Gemini AI models for its own Apple Foundation Models. While some processing is done on-device, agentic tool use and complex reasoning require cloud processing. Apple says it worked with Google and NVIDIA to extend its PCC infrastructure to Google Cloud systems that run NVIDIA GPUs without compromising privacy and security protections.

Our core PCC requirements remain exactly the same: stateless computation, enforceable guarantees, no privileged runtime access, non-targetability, and verifiable transparency. What's new with PCC on Google Cloud is the implementation: NVIDIA Confidential Computing with NVIDIA GPUs, Intel CPUs with TDX, and Google's Titan chip.

All server components and software are part of a trusted computing base subject to verifiable transparency and no-privileged-access guarantees, plus Apple has a cryptographically verifiable ledger of all Google Cloud hardware that is part of the PCC fleet to mitigate the risk of supply chain attacks. PCC on Google Cloud also uses many of the same architectural security patterns as PCC on Apple silicon.

Apple says the efforts it has made to bring PCC to Google Cloud will mean user data continues to be protected by PCC's security and privacy properties even outside of Apple hardware and data centers. Apple maintains control over PCC software and Apple devices will only trust PCC software cryptographically approved by Apple.

PCC on Google Cloud is not fully implemented, and Apple plans to gradually add the full set of protections throughout the beta testing process.

PCC on Google Cloud binaries will be available for public inspection. Apple plans to provide public research tooling and access to live PCC nodes in research mode through its Apple Security Bounty Program.

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Top Rated Comments

Baritone_Guy

22 weeks ago

And you still call it private… wow

That’s not how this works. It simply means they are using Google as a Hyperscaler. It’s like Netflix running on AWS. All the Apple data will be secured with their own private keys.

Nope, not a chance I’ll be using it. Alphabet, Google, whatever they’re calling themselves these days is too shadowy and shady

See above.

So it’s not private then

See above, above ;)

Apple chose the best partner, Google and Privacy are almost synonymous...

/s

See above, above, above.

Private doesn’t mean hosted by first party. It means no one but you have access to your information and it’s still the case here.

You seem to be the only person so far that gets this.

It’s like everybody thinking they are using Gemini chat. They are only using the model. Nothing gets back to Google. Same idea as Copilot with Open AI or Anthropic these days.

It seems folks just want to be outraged for some reason.

Score: 30 Votes (Like | Disagree)

Joosst

22 weeks ago

Is it so they can still say they are carbon neutral by 2030...?

Score: 25 Votes (Like | Disagree)

scrapesleon

22 weeks ago

So it’s not private then

Score: 22 Votes (Like | Disagree)

Artemiz

22 weeks ago

So it’s not private then

Private doesn’t mean hosted by a first party. It means no one but you has access to your information, and it’s still the case here.

Score: 21 Votes (Like | Disagree)

Astuces iOS

22 weeks ago

And you still call it private… wow

Score: 19 Votes (Like | Disagree)

lepetitnicolas

22 weeks ago

Remember that ?

Now it's more "What happens on your iPhone, goes somewhere, may stay somewhere or not (most probably not)(trust us), comes back to your iPhone hopefully".

and they'll need to update https://www.apple.com/privacy

[LIST=1]
* No it won't be sent only to "Apple silicon servers".
* For sure it will be processed and maybe never stored er accessible to Apple but what about Google ?
* Ok it will be returned to me... but will you assure Google will not also return it to something/someone else ?