Google wants enterprises to use its cloud infrastructure to run AI workloads in or outside its data centers. For the latter, the company made generally available on Wednesday the option of running Google Cloud's AI platform in a box.

The Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) air-gapped appliance is mostly for highly regulated organizations that must keep data in house. The hardware runs the Google Cloud infrastructure stack, data security services and Vertex AI platform. Vertex AI runs models that have been pretrained for various tasks.