Nimbus

Nine Google employees arrested after sit-in protest over Project Nimbus

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Nine Google employees who occupied the company’s offices in New York and California were arrested Tuesday night after an eight-hour sit-in. The workers were protesting Google’s involvement in Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion Israeli government contract for Google and Amazon’s cloud computing services. Employees at the Sunnyvale, California, campus occupied Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s … Read more

Tech Workers Protest AI and Cloud Contracts With Israel

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More than 10 workers held a sit-in on the 10th floor of Google’s New York City headquarters on Tuesday to protest Google’s ties to Israel, organizers from “No Tech for Apartheid” tell Gizmodo. The New Yorkers were joined by a simultaneous sit-in inside of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian’s office in Sunnyvale, California. The protestors … Read more