It's just evidence-free conspiracy babble and you're making it worse by mentioning Snowden in a misleading attempt to imply they're working with rather than, as Snowden showed, being attacked by the NSA.

More broadly, however, these things are cache nodes – putting one in a data center makes sense but that's not saying you need to give it the privileged access stereokai implied. The win comes from deploying it on the same physical network but you'd still want to firewall it like public internet traffic.

Handing your internal data to Google appliances to process vs redirecting traffic you'd otherwise send to google to their appliances is a "slight" difference, don't you think?

I guess google could be putting bombs in them, but somehow I doubt it...