Amazon grants Trump’s government a billion dollars

Donald Trump’s tariff may slow the trade with other countries, but the circulation of preference between major technology and Trump’s management is going vigorously. According to a Reuters reportAmazon Web Services gives the federal government a billion dollars in cloud computing services, including adoption, modernization and training programs.

It looks like a beautiful deal if you can get it, and the Trump administration continues to get it. Last month, US Public Services Department Declare A similar deal with Oracle, another cloud computing provider, ensuring a “75 % discount” on the company’s programs and platforms. Only yesterday, Openai said that it will provide its Chatgpt Enterprise product American federal agencies for only one dollar– Many cheaper than The cost cost for the service For most companies, which must pay more than $ 60 per month per month with at least 150 users in a contract of at least 12 months.

So what motivates these companies to provide their products and services at a fracture rate? After all, government contracts are supposed to be very profitable to these companies because She loves the paid government.

Well, there is a clear answer: absorbing power. The Amazon was in it for months now, and did everything from Shell $ 40 million for a documentary movie About Melania Trump (talked about paying excess amounts) to get out of his way to obtain licensing rights trainee On its main video flow platform. He did not get Bezos and his children so far (Trump got Amazon It plans to display the costs of tariffs on the prices of products By bombing the Jeff phone), but they also know that being on Trump’s bad side is more costly. Company He claims that he lost $ 10 billion in Pentagon contracts During Trump’s first period, simply because the president held a grudge.

Then there is a lower possibility: data absorption. It is vulgar at this stage to say, “If you do not pay the price of the product, then you are the product,” but there may be some link to the three here. These companies are hungry data, especially because they are looking for sources that they can feed for artificial intelligence models. It coincides with the government containing a ton of data – and A kind of data they want stronglyBecause it was verified, unique, and provides a detailed view of human behavior for many years.

We know that the data is clearly the seizure. One only needs to look at the work of the Elon Musk team in the Ministry of Government efficiency, which seemed almost completely working as a Data extraction serviceTo get to know this. So these companies may have found their way to get something more valuable than a simple contract. They may have found a way to take advantage of the scourge of the information on which the government sits, and all the cost of this is an approximation of their books. Just theory.