The point isn't the data centers. The DoD has data centers, and could build more. The point is taking advantage of cloud-native technology to gain an edge. Y

The point isn't the data centers. The DoD has data centers, and could build more. The point is taking advantage of cloud-native technology to gain an edge. You can throw all the servers in the universe together, and it won't give you out-of-the-box AI or ML toolkits, or hosted Kubernetes solutions. The point is leveraging the expertise that GCP/AWS/Azure have already poured into the cloud. There are a lot of people who reasonably complain about the cost of AWS, but there are no (reasonable) people that argue that that cost (of one of the big 3 cloud providers, whichever) doesn't equate to the highest-leverage solution on the market. And if the DoD is anything... it is not price-sensitive.