@jackiemak22 this is what you were taking about: the Project Nimbus stuff
https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/google-co-founder-accuses-un-of-antisemitism-over-gaza-genocide-report/
#projectnimbus
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Quoting Sergey Brin: "The use of the term genocide in the context of Gaza is very offensive to Jews, I would not rely on an anti-Semitic organization like the UN."
One might argue that companies profiting from genocide may react defensively... #ProjectNimbus is a $1.2 billion cloud and #AI contract between #Google, #Amazon, and #Israel that has been criticized internationally for enabling Israel's war on #Gaza, including surveillance and AI-driven tactics that contribute to the ongoing #genocide.
Google is to Israel what #IBM was to #Germany in the 1930s—tech support. See https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/114715091687865234
@palestine
@israel
#Google #GenocideDenialism
#GazaGenocide #ProjectNimbus
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kolektiva.socialoatmeal (@oatmeal@kolektiva.social)Reminder: IBM and the Holocaust
#IBM’s punch card technology facilitated German atrocities during the #Holocaust, enabling precise targeting, logistical coordination, and detailed record-keeping of victims. Historian Edwin Black asserts, "without IBM’s machinery, continuing upkeep and service, as well as the supply of punch cards," the scale of the genocide would have been impossible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
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#GazaGenocide #Israel #Microsoft #Google #IsraelWarCrimes #Germany
"Before signing its lucrative and controversial Project Nimbus deal with Israel, Google knew it couldn’t control what the nation and its military would do with the powerful cloud-computing technology, a confidential internal report obtained by The Intercept reveals.
The report makes explicit the extent to which the tech giant understood the risk of providing state-of-the-art cloud and machine learning tools to a nation long accused of systemic human rights violations and wartime atrocities. Not only would Google be unable to fully monitor or prevent Israel from using its software to harm Palestinians, but the report also notes that the contract could obligate Google to stonewall criminal investigations by other nations into Israel’s use of its technology. And it would require close collaboration with the Israeli security establishment — including joint drills and intelligence sharing — that was unprecedented in Google’s deals with other nations.
A third-party consultant Google hired to vet the deal recommended that the company withhold machine learning and artificial intelligence tools from Israel because of these risk factors.
Three international law experts who spoke with The Intercept said that Google’s awareness of the risks and foreknowledge that it could not conduct standard due diligence may pose legal liability for the company."
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/12/google-nimbus-israel-military-ai-human-rights/
The Intercept · Google Worried It Couldn’t Control How Israel Uses Project Nimbus, Files Reveal
"Today marks one year since workers with No Tech for Apartheid staged sit-ins at Google offices to protest the use of our labor to power the genocide in Gaza, to demand an end the harassment and discrimination of our Palestinian, Muslim, and Arab coworkers, and to pressure executives to address the workplace health and safety crisis that Nimbus has caused. Google retaliated against workers and illegally fired 50 Googlers—including many who did not participate directly in the action.
In the year since, Google has only deepened its commitment to being a military contractor. Two months ago, in order to take advantage of the federal contracts the corporation can gain under Trump, Google abandoned its pledge not to build AI for weapons or surveillance. In rapid succession, Google then acquired Israeli cloud security start-up Wiz, pursued partnerships with US Customs and Border Patrol to update towers by Israeli war contractor Elbit Systems with AI at the US-Mexico border, and launched an AI partnership with the largest war profiteer in the world: Lockheed Martin.
Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon are no longer the only war corporations in town; Google and big tech are increasingly eating their lunch. Big tech companies are being pushed by the market to continue to bank returns. But having saturated the consumer and enterprise markets, corporations like Google, in a contentious arms race to dominate the cloud market, have identified the ever-ballooning so-called “defense” budgets of the US and other governments as major pots for profit.
One thing is clear: We urgently need an AI arms embargo."
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/google-employee-speaks-out-war-contracting/
The Nation · I’ve Worked at Google for Decades. I’m Sickened by What It’s Doing.For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.
It turns out that Google officials and lawyers also had concerns about the company's 2021 contract with the Israeli government.
"Google Cloud services could be used for, or linked to, the facilitation of human rights violations, including Israeli activity in the West Bank."
Didn't stop them from firing dozens of employees who protested it.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/3/24311951/google-project-nimbus-internal-documents
The Verge · Internal Google documents reveal concerns about its cloud contract with Israel
"When we sent letters to Amazon and Google, it was with direct, actionable questions about their involvement in Project Nimbus. We asked for transparency about their contracts, clients, and risk assessments. We called for evidence that due diligence had been conducted and demanded explanations of the steps taken to prevent their technologies from facilitating abuse.
Our core demands were straightforward and tied directly to the company’s commitments:
- Disclose the scope of their involvement in Project Nimbus.
- Provide evidence of risk assessments tied to this project.
- Explain how they are addressing credible reports of misuse.
Despite these reasonable and urgent requests, which are tied directly to the companies’ stated legal and ethical commitments, both companies have remained silent, and their silence isn’t just an insufficient response—it’s an alarming one."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/amazon-and-google-must-keep-their-promises-project-nimbus
Electronic Frontier Foundation · Amazon and Google Must Keep Their Promises on Project NimbusWhen a company makes a promise, the public should be able to rely on it. Today, nearly every person in the U.S. is a customer of either Amazon or Google—and many of us are customers of both technology giants. Both of these companies have made public promises that they will ensure their technologies...
#BigTech #DataCenters #CloudComputing #Neoliberalism #Israel #ProjectNimbus #SiliconValley: "This article examines the cloudification of the state by focusing on ‘Project Nimbus’ – a $1.2 billion tender offered by the Israeli government to move ‘the entire Israeli state’ into corporate clouds. As one of the biggest informational infrastructure projects Israel has known, Nimbus revolves around the construction or repurposing of six massive, resource-hungry corporate data centers and the ‘migration’ of the state into them. Accordingly, Nimbus potentially redraws the relationship between the state and big tech, as well as between the state and its citizens. Based on thematic analysis of various project-related sources, we highlight four main aspects of the ‘cloudification of the state.’ First, focusing on cloud ideology, we expose the neo-liberal logics behind the construction of the Nimbus data centers. Second, focusing on cloud epistemology, we show that the effort and organizational changes that come with the cloudification of the state translate into an acute dependence on the tech giants. Third, focusing on the DCaaSization of the state, we argue that with its reliance on DCaaS (‘data center as a service’), the state's ‘behind the scenes’ is fading into the tech giants’ backstage. Lastly, we argue that this cloudification translates into disseminating advanced AI-powered data processing tools alongside pronounced data-ist Silicon Valley ideologies. We conclude by arguing that the construction of the Nimbus data centers and the subsequent cloudification of the state enhance power and information asymmetries between the state and big tech and discuss the data-coloniality of this new cloudified power structure."
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2343816
Google genociders 
"Hundreds protest business deal with Israel at Google conference"
https://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-protest-business-deal-with-israel-at-google-conference/
"Demonstrators chain themselves together, accuse search giant and Israel of using Project Nimbus to commit genocide in Gaza"
www.timesofisrael.comHundreds protest business deal with Israel at Google conferenceDemonstrators chain themselves together, accuse search giant and Israel of using Project Nimbus to commit genocide in Gaza
Several former Google employees who were fired from the company for protesting against its cloud contract with the Israeli government have filed a complaint with the U.S. labor board.
The single-page complaint claims Google’s termination of their contracts was illegal and interferes with their rights to advocate for better working conditions, with one former employee claiming he was fired for simply watching the protest. @techspot has more.
TechSpot · Ex-Google staff claim terminations over Israeli contract protest were illegal
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Il Fatto Quotidiano · Gaza, i ribelli di Google: “Non aiutiamo Israele”
oggi vi raccontiamo una rivolta che cambierà il mondo: la rivolta dei lavoratori #Google che NON vogliono essere parte del bagno di sangue a #Gaza,a causa del #ProjectNimbus:
Il Fatto Quotidiano · Gaza, i ribelli di Google: “Non aiutiamo Israele”
“I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting a $1.2 billion contract with Israel”
by Marisa Kabas
#ProjectNimbus #NoTechForGenocide #Gaza
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/google-worker-fired-protest-israel-project-nimbus
The Handbasket · I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting a $1.2 billion contract with Israel
Google firing people / No Tech for Apartheid
“I’m a Google Cloud software engineer, and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide [and] apartheid”
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/google-protest-israel/
Watch the others in the room. The assholes who jeer and manhandle the protestors. These are your peers in the tech industry. These are the “acceptable folks” in tech. Fuck these people.
Look at their faces. They know exactly what they’re complict in. Look at their smug smiles. Dickheads each one.
The Daily Dot · Google engineers tossed from tech conference for protesting company's contracts with IsraelGoogle engineers protested Google at an Israel tech conference in New York before being thrown out by security.