Saturday, January 25, 2025

Microsoft's Israel ties during Gaza massacres exposed in leaked files

(Long time ago IBM helped the Nazis run the concentration camps now Microsoft helps Israel manage it's genocide. Yeah, go ahead. Run your country like a business. What could be better?)

from Daily Sabah

Leaked internal documents indicate that Microsoft has become a leading supplier of cloud services and artificial intelligence (AI) to the Israeli military, with its involvement expanding significantly following the outbreak of the Gaza conflict on Oct. 7, 2023.

According to documents obtained by Drop Site News, Israel has emerged as one of Microsoft's top global partners, with engineering support and consultancy costs totaling about $10 million since the Gaza attacks began.

Microsoft has yet to publicly confirm or deny the report, and it has not responded to Anadolu Agency's (AA) request for comment.

With additional support projects worth $30 million under consideration in 2024, the total size of Israel's contract with the tech company, which is expected to be much larger, could not be determined from the documents.

The Israeli military's use of Microsoft services has seen unprecedented growth, with cloud storage usage jumping over 155% between June 2023 and April 2024, peaking just before the Rafah offensive in May 2024.

Microsoft's most utilized services include translation tools and Azure OpenAI, accounting for nearly 75% of total military usage...

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