Amazon announced that it will allocate more than $1 billion over the next 5 years to improve conditions for residents in areas surrounding its data centers. It also warned that a freeze on the plans amid nationwide opposition to construction could affect U.S. competitiveness in AI.
Amazon announced that it will allocate more than $1 billion over the next 5 years to improve conditions for residents in areas surrounding its data centers. The specific uses of the funds and details of the programs will be announced at a later date.
As opposition to data center construction spreads across the United States, the company expressed the view that any freeze could affect the country’s competitiveness in AI.
The article reported that the plan announced that day was intended in part to strengthen AWS’s position as the core of Amazon’s cloud business.