There's eventually gonna be a fundamental disagreement here. Google wants control in order to execute on its vision for this project. Governments don't give up control without bloodshed.

The only wildcard is what the people want and quite frankly that could still turn out to be anything because it seems like the masses are mostly apathetic to both sides at this point.

I'm not sure how this is gonna turn out but I am willing to bet that no matter how it goes "pfffft, yet another boondoggle" will be how we'll look back on it in 10yr.