Access public data insights faster: Data Commons MCP is now hosted on Google Cloud

Google launched a hosted Data Commons MCP server on Google Cloud Platform, removing the need for local Python environments to query public statistical data with AI agents.

• •Previously, the Data Commons MCP server required a local Python environment, which was incompatible with high-security settings and lacked scalability
• •The hosted service at https://api.datacommons.org/mcp is free and managed by Google, handling versioning, security, and resource management
• •AI agents can answer natural language queries like correlating unemployment and obesity rates across U.S. states or ranking GDP of eastern European countries
• •Existing Gemini CLI extension users are automatically migrated to the hosted server on next run; no manual action needed
• •New users must obtain a free Data Commons API key and update their MCP configuration to point to the hosted endpoint