Someone sprayed paint on a Google building at 2930 Pearl St. and broke a window early Thursday morning, according to Boulder Police Department spokeswoman Dionne Waugh.
Officers received a call at 4:29 a.m. Thursday about criminal mischief and saw that the east side of the building had been vandalized with graffiti. Social media users on Reddit later posted a photo of the graffiti which read, “F*** Project NIMBUS” in white, with red splotches of spray paint on the brick wall of the building.
Project Nimbus, a joint contract between Google and Amazon signed in 2021, aims to provide cloud computing infrastructure, artificial intelligence and other technology services to the Israeli government and its military, according to information online about the project.
Some Google and Amazon workers around the United States have been protesting the contract since it was signed.
In October 2021, anonymous Google and Amazon workers collectively wrote a letter to their employers that ran in the Guardian newspaper which read, “as workers who keep these companies running, we are morally obligated to speak out … for this reason, we are compelled to call on the leaders of Amazon and Google to pull out of Project Nimbus and cut all ties with the Israeli military.”
When asked for comment, Google spokeswoman Anna Kowalczyk referred the Daily Camera to the Boulder Police Department.
Anyone with information about the vandalism incident is asked to contact Detective Snyder at 303-441-3386. When calling reference case no. 24-05402.