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The Israeli Military Is One of Microsoft's Top AI Customers, Leaked Documents Reveal


Microsoft is a major provider of cloud services and artificial intelligence for the Israeli military, according to internal documents.

Drop Site shared the documents with independent Israeli-Palestinian investigative magazine+972, which previously exposed Israel’s use of AI in its bombing campaign, Local Call, and The Guardian, which also published stories Thursday. But unlike a traditional centralized procurement model, where a single organization makes purchasing decisions on behalf of the entire entity, the Israeli military’s structure is more decentralized. The Microsoft data centers providing services to the Israeli military were not limited to Israel, with many being hosted in European countries that recognize the International Court of Justice’s jurisdiction as compulsory.

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