Google Lands £ 400 milioni MOD Contratto per Servizi cloud sicuri nel Regno Unito

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.