Dozens of Google employees occupied Google Cloud offices in New York and California for several hours on Wednesday afternoon. The action aimed to demand the abrogation of a cloud contract entered into with the State of Israel called Nimbus, and shared with Amazon.
The latter fear that Google's technology will be used by the Israeli army as the country continues its offensive on the Gaza Strip since the Hamas terrorist attack on its territory on October 7. By late afternoon, nine employees were arrested, reports the Washington Post. Google spokesperson: "These employees have been placed on administrative leave, and their access to our systems has been cut off." The latter have since been suspended from their functions. The contract is worth more than 1.2 billion dollars, which is disturbing, according to the New York Times. The Israeli Ministry of Defense uses Google Cloud services via the Nimbus contract. According to this unsigned contract, the army is asking to extend this partnership, enough to amplify the anger of the pro-Palestinian employees of the tech group.