Does Gemini create an empty project in Google Cloud?

I posted over in Reddit about this [0], and also contacted Google support myself.

This seems like a very odd way to set things up, and I wondered if anyone from Google itself would be more likely to see this and explain what's happening?

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/googlecloud/comments/1lnie6s/does_gemini_create_an_empty_project_in_google/