Liberty Global (LBTYA) and Google Cloud (GOOG) (GOOGL) have struck a five-year partnership under which the U.S. tech giant will deploy its artificial intelligence services across the European telecom’s businesses and help accelerate the development of autonomous network operations, among other things, according to a joint statement on Tuesday.
The Liberty-Google tie-up aims to save costs and improve security and data sovereignty for the telecom while exploring opportunities to run the tech giant’s services within Liberty’s data centers by optimizing and identifying additional capacity to satisfy excess demand.
As part of the agreement, Liberty Global will offer Google products and services, such as Pixel phones and watches, smart home devices and Google Home Premium, Chromebooks, and YouTube Premium for its customers. The telecom’s operating companies are expected to launch their smart home offerings over time.
The current partnership also opens up data monetization opportunities and builds on Google Cloud’s partnership with Formula E to accelerate innovation across the racing series.
Financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed.