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Amazon to invest $1B into data center communities amid backlash against data center rollouts

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Amazon plans to invest $1 billion over five years into communities hosting its data centers. The funding will support education, job training, and water preservation in response to public and political backlash regarding the company's infrastructure expansion.

Amazon is investing more than $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 its massive centers

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