NTT Data, Google Cloud Forge Alliance to Expand AI, Cloud Modernization

NTT Data, one of the world’s largest IT services and data center operators, has announced a global partnership with Google Cloud aimed at accelerating AI-powered cloud innovation.

With U.S. headquarters in Plano, Texas, NTT Data brings decades of expertise in digital infrastructure, cloud-native modernization, and enterprise transformation, capabilities that position it as a key bridge between legacy systems and the AI-driven future.

By joining forces with Google Cloud, an industry leader in advanced analytics, generative AI, and hyperscale cloud infrastructure, the collaboration underscores the growing convergence between global service providers and cloud hyperscalers.

Together, the two companies plan to co-develop industry-specific solutions that help enterprises adopt AI at scale, with joint go-to-market strategies designed to speed deployment and expand reach across global markets.

This global partnership builds on NTT Data and Google Cloud’s 2024 co-innovation agreement in APAC. And it strengthens NTT Data’s acquisition of Niveus Solutions, a leading Google Cloud specialist.

Cloud, AI, and Data Centers Converge

According to research firm Gartner, worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to reach $723 billion in 2025, up from $595.7 billion in 2024. That trajectory reflects how the rapid adoption of AI in IT and business operations is intensifying reliance on modern cloud infrastructure, and by extension, the global data center ecosystem that underpins it.

For the data center industry, partnerships like this matter because they connect two of the largest forces reshaping digital infrastructure: hyperscale cloud innovation and global IT service providers with deep operational footprints.

NTT Data is not only one of the world’s largest IT consultancies but also part of NTT Group, which operates one of the largest portfolios of carrier-neutral data centers worldwide. By pairing that physical infrastructure with Google Cloud’s hyperscale capabilities, the companies are signaling how edge-to-core integration will evolve to support enterprise AI adoption at scale.

NTT Data will use Google Cloud technology to develop several industry-specific AI and cloud solutions, accelerating enterprise transformation across sectors including banking, insurance, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, life sciences, and the public sector. NTT representatives said key focus areas include:

Industry-Specific Agentic AI Solutions. NTT Data will build new industry solutions for analytics, decision-making, and client experiences. These solutions will leverage Google Agentspace, a centralized enterprise AI platform allowing businesses to build, manage, and deploy AI agents for task automation and information access across Software as a Service (SaaS) applications and internal sources. The solutions will also incorporate Google’s Gemini generative AI models, secure data clean rooms, and modernize data platforms.

AI-Driven Cloud Modernization. This involves accelerating enterprise modernization with Google Distributed Cloud for secure, scalable modernization built and managed on NTT Data’s global infrastructure, from data centers to edge to cloud.

The partnership is designed to accelerate development of repeatable, scalable solutions, according to reps. NTT Data’s GenAI framework called “Takumi” is at the heart of this development, designed to help clients move from idea to deployment by integrating with Google Cloud’s AI stack supporting rapid prototyping and GenAI use-case creation.

This initiative expands NTT Data’s Smart AI Agent Ecosystem, which unites strategic technology partnerships, specialized assets, and an AI-ready talent engine to help users deploy and manage AI at scale. 

New Business Group

NTT Data has established a dedicated global Google Cloud Business Group comprising thousands of engineers, architects, and advisory consultants. This team will collaborate with Google Cloud teams to help clients adopt and scale AI-powered cloud technologies.

The company also is investing in training and certification programs so teams across sales, presales, and delivery can sell, migrate, and implement AI-powered cloud solutions. NTT Data says it will certify 5,000 engineers in Google Cloud technology, a step that underscores the scale of resources both firms are committing to meet surging enterprise demand.

Both companies are co-investing in global sales and go-to-market campaigns designed to fast-track adoption across priority industries.

A Landmark Moment for NTT—and the Industry

Marv Mouchawar, Head of Global Innovation at NTT Data, said the partnership is a significant milestone in the company’s mission to drive innovation and digital transformation across industries.

"By combining NTT Data’s deep expertise in AI, cloud-native modernization and enterprise solutions with Google Cloud’s advanced technologies, we are helping businesses accelerate their AI-powered cloud adoption globally and unlock new opportunities for growth," she noted.

For the data center industry, this partnership is notable not just as a technology alignment but as a signal of where digital infrastructure is headed.

Hyperscale cloud providers continue to expand their reach through partnerships with major service providers, while companies like NTT Data bring both enterprise relationships and a massive global data center footprint to the table. As AI workloads reshape demand for compute, interconnection, and edge capacity, alliances of this scale will influence how, and where, the next generation of cloud and data center infrastructure is built.

It also positions NTT and Google Cloud within an increasingly competitive landscape, where rival alliances such as Microsoft’s long-running partnership with Accenture/Avanade or AWS’s collaborations with Deloitte are vying for the same enterprise transformation spend.

In that context, the NTT–Google Cloud partnership is more than just a milestone for NT. It can be seen as a shot across the bow in the battle to define how AI, cloud, and data center infrastructure converge at global scale.

At Data Center Frontier, we talk the industry talk and walk the industry walk. In that spirit, DCF Staff members may occasionally use AI tools to assist with content. Elements of this article were created with help from OpenAI's GPT5.

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