Google Cloud is delighted to announce the opening of our 41st cloud region in Querétaro, Mexico. This marks our third cloud region in Latin America, joining Santiago, Chile, and São Paulo, Brazil. From Querétaro, we'll provide fast, reliable cloud services to businesses and public sector organizations throughout Mexico and beyond. This new region offers low latency, high performance, and local data residency, empowering organizations to innovate and accelerate digital transformation initiatives.

Helping organizations in Mexico thrive in the cloud

Google Cloud regions are major investments to bring best-in-class infrastructure, cloud and AI technologies closer to customers. Enterprises, startups, and public sector organizations can leverage Google Cloud’s infrastructure economy of scale and global network to deliver applications and digital services to their end users. 

With this new region in Querétaro, Mexico, Google Cloud customers enjoy: 

• Speed: Serve your end users with fast, low-latency experiences, and transfer large amounts of data between networks easily across Google’s global network.

• Security: Keep your organizations’ and customers' data secure and compliant, including meeting the requirements of CNBV contractual frameworks, and maintain local data residency.

• Capacity: Scale to meet growing user and business needs.

• Sustainability: Reduce the carbon footprint of your IT environment and help meet sustainability targets.

Google Cloud customers are eager to benefit from the new possibilities that this cloud region offers: 

"At Prosa, we have been undergoing a transformation process for the past three years that involves adopting technology and developing digital skills within our teams. The partnership with Google has been key to carrying out projects, evolving towards digital business models, enabling the ecosystem, promoting the API-ification of services, and improving data analysis. This alliance is only deepened with the launch of the new Google Cloud region, which will facilitate the integration of participants into the payment ecosystem in a secure and highly available manner, improving the customer experience and delivering value more quickly and agilely," said Salvador Espinosa, CEO of Prosa, a payment technology company that processed more than 10 million transactions in 2023.

Building a new Google Cloud region in Querétaro, Mexico is welcomed by the Mexican public sector. 

“The new Google cloud region in Mexico will be key to build a digital government accountable to citizens, deepening our path to digital transformation. Since 2018, the Auditoria Superior de la Federación (ASF) has pioneered digital transformation in Mexico, promoting innovation and the responsible use of technology, while using advanced technologies like Google Cloud's Vertex AI, among other proprietary tools, to enhance data analysis, automate processes, and improve collaboration. This enables more accurate decision-making, optimized oversight of public spending, increased inspection coverage, and transparent use of resources. Thanks to the cloud, we see a future where technology is a strategic ally to execute efficient, agile and exhaustive digital audits, detect irregularities early, and strengthen accountability. ASF's focus on transparency and efficiency aligns with President Claudia Sheinbaum's public innovation policy.” - Emilio Barriga Delgado, Special Auditor of Federalized Expenditure, Auditoria Superior de la Federación

The new cloud region also opens new opportunities for our global ecosystem of over 100,000 incredibly diverse partners.

“For Amarello and our customers, the availability of a new region in Mexico demonstrates the great growth of Google Cloud and its commitment to Mexico. It’s also a great milestone for the country, putting us on par with other economies. This will create jobs that will speed up our clients’ adoption of strategic projects and latency-sensitive technological services such as financial services or mission-critical operations. At the same time, the new region will enable projects that require information to be maintained within the national territory, now on the most innovative and secure public cloud.” - Mauricio Sánchez Valderrama, managing partner, Amarello Tecnologías de Información

And for global companies looking to tap into the Mexican market: 

As networks shift to a cloud-first approach, and hybrid work enables work from anywhere, businesses in the Mexico region can now securely accelerate innovation, boost efficiency, and enhance customer experiences with Palo Alto Networks AI-powered solutions, like Prisma SASE, built in the cloud to secure the cloud at scale. The powerful collaboration between Google Cloud and Palo Alto Networks reinforces our commitment to security and innovation so organizations can confidently embrace the AI-driven future, knowing their users, data, and applications are protected from evolving threats.” Anupam Upadhyaya, Vice President, Product Management, Palo Alto Networks

Delivering on our commitment to Latin America 

In 2022, we announced a five-year, $1.2 billion commitment to Latin America, focusing on four key areas: digital infrastructure, digital skills, entrepreneurship, and inclusive, sustainable communities. 

This new Google Cloud region in Querétaro, Mexico showcases Google’s continued commitment to that goal and to Latin America’s digital transformation. Increased cloud adoption and productivity as a result of the new cloud region is expected to generate over 100,000 jobs and contribute more than $11 billion to Mexico’s GDP by 2030.

We’re equally committed to creating new career opportunities for people in Mexico and Latin America: We’re working with over 550 universities across Latin America to offer a robust and continuously updated portfolio of learning resources so students can seize the opportunities created by new digital technologies like AI and the cloud. As a result, we’ve already granted more than 14,000 digital skill badges to students and individual developers in Mexico over the last 24 months. 

Another example of our commitment is the "Súbete a la nube" program that we created in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), with a focus on women and the southern region of the country. To date, 12,500 people have registered for essential digital skills training in cloud computing through the program. 

Today, we’re also announcing a commitment to train 1 million Mexicans in AI and cloud technologies over the coming years. Google Cloud will continue to skill Mexico's local talent with a variety of no-cost training programs for students, developers and customers. Some of the ongoing training programs will include no-cost, localized courses available through YouTube, credentials through the Google Cloud Skills Boost platform, community support by Google Developer Groups, and scholarships for the Google Career Certificates that help prepare learners for high-growth, in-demand jobs in fields like cybersecurity and data analytics, so the cloud can truly democratize innovation and technology.

This new Google Cloud region is also a step towards providing generative AI products and services to Latin American customers. Cloud computing will increasingly be a key gateway towards the development and usage of AI, helping organizations compete and innovate at global scale. 

Google Cloud is dedicated to being the partner of choice for customers undergoing digital transformation. We're focused on providing sustainable, low-carbon options for running applications and infrastructure. Since 2017, we've matched 100% of our global annual electricity use with renewable energy. We're aiming even higher with our 2030 goal: operating on 24/7 carbon-free energy across every electricity grid where we operate, including Mexico.

We’re incredibly excited to open the Querétaro, Mexico region, bringing low-latency, reliable cloud services to Mexico and Latin America, so organizations can take advantage of all that the cloud has to offer. Stay tuned for even more Google Cloud regions coming in 2025 (and beyond), and click here to learn more about Google Cloud’s global infrastructure.