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Google Cloud, and Google Workspace, are subject to different terms of service than the consumer offerings. For example: "Google does not collect, scan, or use your content in Google Workspace services for advertising purposes". Same for model training etc it seems.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/13881138

Which leaves it open to using your content for anything else than advertising, whatever that is. And even "advertising" can be called another name, if they decide so.

When I was selecting a cloud provider at a previous company there wasn't any concern with using GCP or Azure. There was a minor concern (from some clients in retail) about using Amazon, but even that was overblown in my opinion. These businesses live or die on being trustworthy with infrastructure.

I think the view that cloud providers are screwing over their customers behind their backs is just not grounded in reality, experience, evidence, or how business contracts work.

They're totally happy with it being in Microsoft's cloud so I expect that'll be fine too

Given there are already lots of B2B cloud PC offerings (including from both Microsoft and Google), probably.