> 11,500 terabytes of Israeli military data – equivalent to approximately 200m hours of audio – was held in Microsoft’s Azure servers in the Netherlands

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dh2022 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I wonder why IDC choose the Netherlands location. Microsoft has one Azure region in Israel itself: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/reliability/regions-...

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smileybarry 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The Israel Azure region wasn't launched until 2023, and AFAIK has substantially less services available than the others. I know Google's Israel region doesn't have as many GPU options, for example.

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warrenmiller 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

might have something to do with the Netherlands being a large investor in Israel. the largest in the EU. It's responsible for two-thirds of EU investment in Israel. https://www.somo.nl/economic-sanctions-eu-is-israel-largest-...

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honeycrispy 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Safer from ballistics

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AlfredBarnes 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why build something near or semi near conflict?

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serialNumber 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Valid question, but just look at the huge amount of R&D / the tech companies in Israel. Even if it’s near conflict, I don’t think companies care

	▲	darkwater 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		A company doesn't care. An army does.

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Aeolun 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It bothers me more that it was held in the Netherlands than that it was held on Azure servers.

It’s a fucking disgrace to any government to be facilitating anything like this, and the Netherlands seems extra complicit.

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bilekas 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

But why do you think the Netherlands govt was in anyway involved in this? I host some bsremetal in the Netherlands but I don't need to report to the government what I store..

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dh2022 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What makes you think Netherlands government knows what data resides within its borders?

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Aeolun 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I don’t necessarily expect them to know what resides within their borders, I merely expect them to act against atrocities. It is no accident that all this data was located in the Netherlands.

	▲	jfengel 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Would it have been different elsewhere in Europe?

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ballenf 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How much would the bill be for this?