Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over Israel cloud contract
The employees were protesting against “Project Nimbus.”
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The bigger subject here is that Google is taking on a government contract as a power flex not as a real growth opportunity. It's 1.2B usd contract shared with Amazon so it's 600M right? - that's like 3 days of adsense revenue (or 1 EU fine lol)
Google is not doing this as a direct business opportunity but as a market flex or some ideological goal. I think it's fair that it's being responded in ideological sense as well.
It seems more likely that they are trying to compete with Amazon in the government contract sphere, which is very lucrative in general.
Probably yeah - in high corporate sense. Googlers however still think Google is different. Sundar Pichai thinks Google is different. The amount of self delusion is quite incredible when in reality it's just another giant souless corporation with self interest.
I don't think that's as true as you think it is.
They are trying to grab any business. I work with many companies and I’ve yet to see any actively using gcp. I know a few planning to move data there but Google is throwing a ton of resources at them.
Azure and Aws are where most are located.
