By Patrick Moorhead
Publication Date: 2025-11-12 20:05:00
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was booked to speak at the Google Public Sector Summit, but he had to travel to Asia for talks on China trade policy. In his place, Ian Buck, who leads Nvidia’s hyperscale and high-performance computing business, joined Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and Google Public Sector CEO Karen Dahut for an onstage conversation at the event.
Patrick Moorhead
These days, I’m often invited onto news programs to comment about the U.S. government’s involvement — or potential involvement — with tech issues, whether that means taking a stake in Intel, providing incentives for onshoring manufacturing or creating a more secure supply chain for rare earth elements. The recent Google Public Sector Summit I attended in Washington, D.C. highlighted the other side of the coin: not the actions the government might take with tech companies, but how one big tech company is taking action to support government entities.
I thought the Google team did a great job, and I walked…