Google Data Center Community AI Fellowship 2026 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: July 12, 2026

Applications are open for the Google Data Center Community AI Fellowship 2026. The Google Data Center Community AI Fellowship, powered by Watson Institute, is a completely-funded program designed for probably the most promising group leaders leveraging AI to scale inclusive, native options in Google Data Center Communities.

Fellows obtain entrepreneurship coaching with embedded AI abilities improvement, dedicated mentorship from practitioners with deep technical experience, integration of Google’s AI merchandise and sources, monetary instruments, entry to a worldwide community, and lengthy-time period Alumni help. Fellows not solely scale their very own native options however multiply their impression by coaching different native leaders via group-led Basecamps—deepening their impression throughout their Data Center Communities.

Benefits

• Leadership & AI Skills Training Workshops: Participate in fingers-on classes targeted on entrepreneurship, enterprise acumen, and AI abilities coaching. This coaching will likely be led by professional practitioners who’ve expertise creating and implementing options to their very own group challenges.
• Financial Tools & Resources: Access sensible monetary instruments, frameworks, and workshops designed to strengthen your enterprise’s monetary basis. Benefit from the experience of practitioners and Watson Institute’s broader community of specialists supporting entrepreneurs at each stage.
• Basecamps: Creating Lasting Impact: Design and lead a 1-day workshop (Basecamp) for earlier-stage entrepreneurs, with coaching and a group improvement stipend offered to help you in deepening the innovation ecosystem in your group.
• Pitch Training & Virtual Summit: Master the artwork of compelling storytelling via devoted pitch teaching. Present your native resolution’s progress and group impression to an viewers of entrepreneurs, potential buyers, company companions, and leaders at Summit, a stay pitching and networking occasion.

Eligibility

• You are an impression-pushed entrepreneur or group chief who’s leveraging expertise or AI to handle urgent challenges in your group.
• You is perhaps an entrepreneur main your personal native options or a group chief advancing an initiative inside or via a corporation.
• You are a neighborhood chief with lived experience of the challenges you’re fixing.
• You have a demonstrated historical past of management and group impression, and you’re motivated to create constructive and measurable change via your work.
• You are positioned in, or creating measurable impression inside, one of many following Google Data Center Communities:
  • United States: Austell/Douglas County, GA; Berkeley County, SC; Council Bluffs, IA; Fort Wayne, IN; Loudoun County, VA; Midlothian, TX; Omaha, NE; Stillwater, OK; Tulsa, OK (to incorporate the Pryor/Muskogee areas)
  • International: Groningen, Netherlands; Hamina, Finland; Waltham Cross/Hertfordshire, Thurrock or Epping/Essex, and the better London space, UK
• You should be capable to decide to the complete program, together with the digital Immersive Week and weekly workshops held Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, Fellows will take part in one among two teams, every with a chosen begin time: 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM MT or 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM MT. They prioritize members who’re absolutely dedicated to lively engagement all through your complete program. The program’s success depends upon constructing a powerful group the place all members are passionate about each studying and sharing their experiences with others.

Application

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For extra info, go to Google Data Center Community AI Fellowship.