NOAA ditches weather-predicting supercomputers for Google Cloud

Uncle Sam will no longer be hosting his own supercomputers to predict the weather. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has picked Google Cloud to provide the infrastructure for its weather forecasting operations. In an announcement, NOAA boasted that it will be the first national weather prediction center to run on the commercial cloud, though the UK's Met Office is also in the process of moving its own weather prediction system to Microsoft Azure in a hybrid setup.