Amazon to invest $1B into data center communities amid backlash against data center rollouts
Amazon is committing $1 billion over five years to communities hosting its data centers. The investment aims to support education, job training, and water preservation in response to public and political backlash.
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is investing $1 billion over the next five years into communities where it operates data centers for education, job training, water preservation projects and other local priorities as it reacts to a growing backlash from politicians and consumers to the tech industry’s rollout of the massive centers. According to a...
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