Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10 Billion Cloud Competition (bloomberg.com)

Citing corporate values, Google has decided not to compete for the Pentagon's $10 billion cloud-computing contract. Bloomberg reports: The project, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud, or JEDI, involves transitioning massive amounts of Defense Department data to a commercially operated cloud system. Companies are due to submit bids for the contract, which could last as long as 10 years, on October 12th. Google's announcement on Monday came just months after the company decided not to renew its contract with a Pentagon artificial intelligence program, after extensive protests from employees of the internet giant about working with the military. The company then released a set of principles designed to evaluate what kind of artificial intelligence projects it would pursue. "We are not bidding on the JEDI contract because first, we couldn't be assured that it would align with our AI Principles," a Google spokesman said in a statement. "And second, we determined that there were portions of the contract that were out of scope with our current government certifications."

The spokesman added that Google is "working to support the U.S. government with our cloud in many ways." "Had the JEDI contract been open to multiple vendors, we would have submitted a compelling solution for portions of it," they said. "Google Cloud believes that a multi-cloud approach is in the best interest of government agencies, because it allows them to choose the right cloud for the right workload."

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Maybe..

[ma1wrbu5tr]

Maybe the Chinese gave them a better offer. (or ultimatum)

Re:Welcome in China

[LostMyBeaver]

Ok... time to move on here.

Google is a global company who has interests in most countries of the world. They have an office 15 minutes from me here in Norway and they are certainly spread out pretty much everywhere.

Supporting the USA and supporting the US military are two different things. The US military is an organization that exists primarily to give the US government and excuse to dump money into the economy and to remove youths from lower income tax brackets from the national unemployment statistics while brainwashing them to have self respect and discipline through rigid structure which is something the tax payers are well aware wasn't provided in the homes of those children. The US military is an excellent program for many reasons. For example, if the US leadership is lucky, they can ship hundreds of thousands of children off to a battlefield where they will be shot, injured, killed, or at least be crippled by PTSD which allows them to be removed from the unemployment statistics when they get back home (or not). It's extremely important to convince as many Americans as possible that this cause is right and just because the currently, with generally the worst overall performing demographics in nearly every category in the western world, the US needs a reliable industry to maintain it's position in the 2nd world. Of course, the US is probably at the absolute top of the second world countries. So... don't worry... it's still #1.

Support the military and support the soldiers and support the war efforts, etc... this is something which every militarily dominate leader in the world has depended on in order to feed their economies. When the people of those countries stop working for greatness and instead depend on greatness instilled upon them based on the conditions which they exited a vagina, countries are left with a vastly lethargic population who believe that they have the right to greatness. The only way for leaders to keep feeding that is to take a "world leadership" role which means in all practical terms "World's police". And then some leader will go around and attempt to make all the other countries pay for their leadership... which means pay for the military.

Right now, the American leadership is at a serious loss. Southern Japan houses over 40,000 American sailors/soldiers... paid for by ... well Japan. The infrastructure required to support 40,000 (mostly children with overpriced cars) is substantially larger.

All through the Pacific Rim, the US military as a corporate entity depends on the fear instilled by a bat shit crazy North Korean leader. Ten million or more Americans are fed based on being prepared to fight a war against North Korea. If peace is negotiated with North Korea, and it more than likely will be, then North Korea will receive funds, aid and support are favorable interest rates while North Korea is built into an international leader similar to South Korea. This was a stroke of brilliance by North Korea. Building a nuclear arsenal simply to use it as a bargaining chip to enter the world market without being a beggar.

Well once that happens and the big threat is gone, there's still China to fear. And American leadership keeps treating China as if they're a Western country. China has completely backed off of military domination. Sure, they have a military, but it's not for fighting wars with America. Beating America has never been interesting. The communist government is attempting to build a communist society. They are very quickly working towards simply collapsing the world market. The world market depends on money having value. For money to have value, it has to be able to be used in exchange for stuff. What gives the money real value is when it can be used in exchange for what we need as opposed to what we want. This means housing, food and energy. Other than that, we don't really need all that crap. Only three things actually have real, honest value. If we add medicine... it's really close to being a need.

If China can mak