Google lands £400M MoD contract for secure UK cloud services
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/12/google_cloud_mod_contract/
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Google lands £400M MoD contract for secure UK cloud services
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/12/google_cloud_mod_contract/
Posted by Rewindcasette
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As a tech professional, I’m actually quite surprised at how thorough the contract seems to be – I went in skeptical but it does seem an improvement from Azure and AWS predecessors.
I am however confused as the government keeps posturing UK (London) to try and be a new Silicon Valley while never, ever, ever investing in UK tech firms or resources for UK government large scale use cases.
My hunch would be that US companies have negotiated exclusive competitive energy rates which essentially define the viability of data centres, as the UK gov will simply won’t negotiate with the hydra of energy companies on behalf of UK businesses, meaning none can scale to the level required of these kind of contracts.
I always find it funny how the government has ended up with AWS, Azure and now Google, all for separate major infrastructure projects.
Microsoft has said to EU countries that even with local data centers and teams, they cannot guarantee they are out of scope of the US’s surveillance laws (which has prompted some governments to migrate away).
No reason to believe Google is any different.
But at this point who still cares? The UK is just a pawn anyway, and will be even more so with Farage and his clique at the helm
Another complete garbage decision. The UK must and should focus on sovereignty. Yes it’s bloody expensive. But in the long run it pays off.
You can not have a sovereign country if other countries completely dominate your markets.
Might as well change our flag to the American flag right now. And don’t be naive. Once these trillion dollar companies have secured the contract they will never ever let them go.
Once you are conquered in 2025 – future you ain’t never getting your country back. This is not the 1900s anymore. Tech completely dominates.
Sad.
When the rest of the world seems to be at least trying to decouple from America and its tech bros, we just keep defending them, inviting them over, and giving them more money.