$135 Billion Mistake By Google Could Have Been A Disaster For UniSuper

Peter Steven Ho
4 min readJun 5, 2024

In a blink of an eye, $135 billion goes missing and UniSuper is left wondering what just happened to its Google cloud infrastructure.

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On May 2, a nightmare scenario for UniSuper became a reality when 135 billion dollars worth of retirement savings and investments vanished unexpectedly, so too the Google cloud that UniSuper depends on.

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Peter Steven Ho

BSc (Hons), LLB. Freelance writer in Technology, Science and Travel. Come join me on a journey of discovery.