Fascinating data on Project Nimbus:
• $1.2 billion a total contract value announced by Israel’s Finance Ministry in April 2021
• 4 planned phases: infrastructure construction, government policy development, migration of operations, and ongoing optimization
• Workloads officially described as finance, healthcare, transportation, and education
• Defense and military entities were involved in the project from its inception
• The agreement contractually blocks the companies from halting services because of boycott campaigns
• Internal documents reportedly showed awareness of potential human rights violation risks even before the contract was signed
Signals of where the world is headed.
Stanford students walkout during Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s commencement address
The walkout was to protest ‘Project Nimbus,’ the $1.2 billion contract Google and Amazon signed with the Israeli government