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minus-square@atk007@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish11•21 days agoOn the other hand, Bundeswehr (German Military) runs their infrastructure on Google Cloud.
minus-squarealbert180linkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-221 days agoIt is still an absolutely moronic idea, but they don’t run their software on the Google Cloud, they run their own Datacenter and Google Cloud provides the Software Platform. It is still air gapped and theoretically independent
minus-square@Schorsch@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglish3•21 days agoThat’s one way to channel German tax money into US big tech.
On the other hand, Bundeswehr (German Military) runs their infrastructure on Google Cloud.
It is still an absolutely moronic idea, but they don’t run their software on the Google Cloud, they run their own Datacenter and Google Cloud provides the Software Platform. It is still air gapped and theoretically independent
That’s one way to channel German tax money into US big tech.