Transparency: this article contains affiliate links. If you purchase hosting through my link, I will receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Write About Gemma 4 . The Problem: My Tokens Are Flying to Google Cloud A few weeks ago, I shared how I set up Gemini CLI for managing Pressable servers directly from the Fedora terminal: no browser, no extra clicks - just commands, and the server infrastructure obeys. But the euphoria quickly turned into a question: "Where are my confidential tokens being processed?" The access key to the production server was flying to Google Cloud. Logs, PHP versions, site structure - everything was passing through someone else's data center. It's like giving your apartment keys to your neighbors: they might be decent people, but it's more peaceful when the keys are only with you. 😎 Solution: I switched to Gemma 4 - an open model from Google with an Apache 2.0 license, which gives full control over the data.…