"I started using Google Drive, Gmail, and the whole suite of tools back when they were still invite-only. Back then, the cloud was an unknown entity, and many of us had no idea that it would become the backbone of both business and personal use. According to , the public cloud market alone will break the $1 trillion mark by 2026. indicates that 67% of senior executives say that their organization has accelerated its plans for cloud adoption. That's a lot of people using cloud services, and it's only going to continue to grow."
"A few years ago, Google announced its plans for integrating AI into its services. When I first read that, my immediate thought was that the company would be using my work to train large language models. Given that for over two decades, I'd been writing my novels with Google Docs and saving them in Google Drive, that was a problem. In the end, I ceased writing my novels in Google Workspace and moved them into the safety of my local network."
Public cloud adoption has become a dominant part of business and personal computing, with the public cloud market projected to exceed $1 trillion and many organizations accelerating cloud plans. Some users are rethinking third-party cloud reliance because of AI integration and concerns about provider use of personal work for training large language models. Long-standing documents and novels were moved off Google Workspace into a local network to prevent such use. Note-taking and other apps were migrated to self-hosted LAN servers to enable multi-device access while reclaiming data control and reducing exposure to third-party AI training.
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