Google: Here's why we're pulling out of Pentagon's $10bn JEDI cloud race

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Google will no longer compete for the Pentagon's winner-take-all JEDI cloud computing contract that could be worth up to $10bn over a decade. Google, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle have been vying for the JEDI, or Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, contract to supply cloud infrastructure to the Pentagon, allowing the Department of Defense to consolidate its data centers. Potential bidders have until October 12 to submit proposals but Google confirmed today to Bloomberg that it has dropped out of the process because the project conflicted with its new AI principles. "We are not bidding on the JEDI contract because first, we couldn't be assured that it would align with our AI Principles," a Google spokesman said in a statement. "And second, we determined that there were portions of the contract that were out of scope with our current government certifications."

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