In recent years, Google and Amazon fell under renewed scrutiny for their military work, including their Project Nimbus contracts with the Israeli government. Employees of both cloud providers staged sit-ins last year to protest Project Nimbus, under which Google and Amazon reportedly provided cloud computing services to the Israel Defense Forces.
The Pentagon and militaries around the globe have a renewed appetite to use AI, the Department of Defense’s chief AI officer previously told TechCrunch. As Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and other tech giants invest hundreds of billions of dollars in AI infrastructure, many are looking to recoup that investment through military partnerships.