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Can you elaborate on this?

I've never heard before that they are trying to kill GCP?

Perhaps they are basing it on this [1] ultimatum supposedly issued by GCP’s top brass to best the top 2 cloud providers by a certain date. It was widely discussed on HN some months ago.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21815260

Yeah that conversation was pretty silly and more HN echo chamber because folks are mad that Google Reader was shutdown. Below is what I commented a few months ago re: this topic.

> Google is currently building a massive $500 million datacenter outside of Reno as we speak, and has 10+ billion invested in their datacenter cloud offering buildout this year alone.

> https://9to5google.com/2019/07/01/google-data-center-nevada/

> https://www.rgj.com/story/money/business/2019/02/13/google-i....

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