There is no need to tell you about many of the products and platforms that Google makes available to us right now. But the search giant not only works for the end user, since they also have services and projects for companies and even governments. For some time now there has been talk about a controversial project that is in operation called Nimbus and which we will talk about below.
To give you an initial idea of all this, say that it is something that Google is working on thanks to a contract of 1.2 billion dollars, which is not small. The problem comes because due to its nature, some of the company’s workers have revealed themselves and complained publicly. The project aims provide storage services and cloud data processing to the Government of Israel. At the same time, it offers Artificial Intelligence applications for military use.
This has led to the dismissal of 50 workers from the firm, according to the organization No Tech For Apartheid Campaign. This is an association formed by workers from the giants Google and Amazon who are precisely calling for the end of this project.
What is Google Project Nimbus
Say the company said the deal had nothing to do with Israeli military weaponry. But shortly after, Time magazine published a report claiming that Google was working on custom tools for the Israeli Ministry of Defense via Nimbus.
There is no doubt that this is a project that the search giant has embarked on and that is creating a lot of controversy among some of its workers. It focuses on providing various cloud and Artificial Intelligence services to the Israeli Government, as we told you.
Initially, the company itself assured its workers and developers that sensitive or military workloads were not being processed here. But shortly after, they have been able to glimpse that the Nimbus Project develops specific tools for the Israeli Ministry of Defense. It is worth mentioning that all this has caused a lot of criticism. And not only because of the dismissals of some of its workers, but because of the ethical and political implications it has.
Due to this type of projects, many consider the direct influence of some of the large technology companies in war conflicts such as the one in Gaza.
Why Nimbus has affected workers
As part of the rejection and complaints by some Google workers, among others, the aforementioned organization No Tech For Apartheid Campaign He assures that 50 of these workers have been fired. All this after carrying out sit-ins of up to ten hours in several of the company’s offices.
From the point of view of the aforementioned organization, the dismissal of 50 employees It is due to their protests against the Nimbus Project. However, the company itself assures that all this is given as part of a restructuring process carried out by Google right now.
