By Priya Raman

Google is building a durable public-sector foothold in Brazil: Paraná has deployed 1,316 autonomous applications powered by large language models (LLMs) across 52 government agencies, with access planned for 36,000 employees.

Cloud computing and artificial intelligence have become an administrative layer. Standardised data, workflows and procurement can speed public decisions, but they can also reduce governments’ bargaining power and institutional control.

Palantir has drawn scrutiny for supplying systems that integrate and analyse data about people’s lives, spanning health, security and economic administration.

In June 2026, Reuters reported that Britain was reviewing its £330 million NHS contract over confidentiality, public trust and dependence on a U.S. supplier, despite reported improvements in waiting lists and hospital discharges.

In May 2025, The New York Times reported that Palantir engineers organised IRS taxpayer data with Foundry; The Washington Post documented expanding military and immigration-enforcement work in August 2025.

Palantir’s everyday reach remains narrower than Microsoft’s, Google’s or Meta’s. Microsoft and Google have supplied education, communication and office tools worldwide, in multiple languages, for decades. Their government push is newer; their intent to become integral to citizens’ institutional lives remains less clear.

Over 120 days, Rodrigo Magnago, director at RMagnago Critical Thinking, tracked Google across several of Brazil’s 26 states. São Paulo, roughly Oregon’s size, would rank 15th among U.S. state economies on preliminary 2025 GDP at the annual average exchange rate, behind Virginia and Michigan.

He compared São Paulo, Paraná and Mato Grosso: 61.6 million residents and about $90.5 billion in 2024 agricultural production value. That exceeded Germany ($81.7 billion), Italy ($81.6 billion) and the Netherlands ($44.6 billion), near France ($96.7 billion). Google provides infrastructure and information services to all three governments.

His assessment of how feedback shapes decisions was cautious: “There is reason for optimism, but the result is not automatic.” He also wrote: “We may be observing the formation of a horizontal position that spans national borders.” He called the possible outcome informational countries, as data systems connect populations beyond fixed state boundaries.

What has Google built in Paraná?

At Paraná state headquarters, José Padilha, director of artificial intelligence at the Secretariat of Innovation