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did you configure ADC (application default credentials)?

Run:
```gcloud auth application-default```
or add `--update-adc` while running `gcloud auth` command.

authenticating gcloud != authenticating apps running on your computer (cause they rely on ADC)

I am pretty sure I did, I ran the following…
```$ gcloud auth application-default login
$ gcloud auth login --update-adc

and then 
$ gcloud auth list                     
                     Credentialed Accounts
ACTIVE  ACCOUNT
*       <mailto:chris@thesignuplist.com|chris@thesignuplist.com>
        <mailto:christopher-local@thesignuplist.iam.gserviceaccount.com|christopher-local@thesignuplist.iam.gserviceaccount.com>

and even... 
gcloud auth application-default set-quota-project thesignuplist

but I am still getting the following when running 
$ pulumi up

* googleapi: Error 403: [some_old_account]@appspot.gserviceaccount.com does not have storage.buckets.create access to the Google Cloud project., forbidden```

<@U02N2JSD196> that error indicaes the credentials you got don't have access to the bucket you're writing the state to. do you have an env var set?

`GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS`  is point the old stuffs.

```Outputs:
  + bucket_name: "<gs://my-bucket-b1cad9a>"```