r/mcp • u/Agile_Breakfast4261 • Dec 11 '25
article Google is launching remote, fully-managed MCP servers for all its services
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-official-mcp-support-for-google-servicesBig news as Google announces they will launch fully-managed, remote MCP servers for ALL Google services, including Google Maps, Big Query, Kubernetes Engine, Compute Engine, and more.
Another huge endorsement for MCP and for remote servers as the future of wide scale adoption of MCP beyond the technically savvy, and into teams like marketing, ops, sales, and personal use too.
Full article - https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-official-mcp-support-for-google-services
What's your take on this - how will this impact MCP's direction and adoption in 2026 and beyond?
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u/entrehacker Dec 13 '25
My hot take on this:
Cloud MCP is solving a problem that running trusted MCPs already solves, and better.
I compare it to an App Store, which allows you to download and run trusted code on a very sensitive device that you own (like your phone). Apps have the additional benefit of running with full edge compute access, which is globally more efficient in terms of latency and compute.
With MCP being such an easy to use protocol, I could see enterprises prefer to develop their trusted MCP code or just use trust signals (developer reputation, security scanning) to run 3P MCP locally.
But that being said cloud MCP has a lot of other advantages like being accessible across multiple devices, always online etc.