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Amazon workers who testified in support of reasonable data center regulations in Seattle are now being intimidated and investigated by the company.
...not exactly a great way for Amazon to convince the public that data centers are in the public's best interest.
How ironic. The people fast-tracking data center expansion in the name of "national security" don't seem to care about regulations ensuring the government data stored on these servers actually stays secure.
If data centers are supposedly so good for the economy, why do 14 states refuse to tell us how much they're costing taxpayers in subsidies and handouts? 🤔
More data center resistance in the heartland! Residents in Hobart IN are demonstrating to let Gov. Braun know that data centers are a bad deal for Hoosiers.
The state has already given Amazon $8 billion in subsidies for data center buildouts.
Delivery service providers contracted with Amazon report being told they must "precisely follow any route Amazon’s software lays out for them, even if it makes no sense, to help the algorithm learn."
Yet Amazon still doesn't treat these folks as employees. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Athena Coalition
The feds were pushing a landmark case about Amazon’s control of its contract drivers. Then the president put Amazon’s former lawyer in charge.
SCOOP from me and @mollytaft.com: As data centers become a hot-button issue in the lead up to midterms, Congress and the White House appear to be allowing a little-known regulation on how the government regulates data centers that hold federal data expire. @wired.com
www.wired.com/story/the-us...
The federal government is planning to let a rule regulating federal data center operations sunset in September with no replacement.
4 states now report losing $1 billion+ to data center tax breaks. Costs keep rising; 14 states still fail to disclose what these subsidies cost.
Residents deserve to know what it's costing them to subsidize Big Tech *before* another deal is approved.
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“I had this rising sense of anger that Amazon is attempting to infringe on my rights to speak out politically in my city,” he said. “If we allow corporations to decide which speech is or is not allowed, that absolutely hurts democracy.” 💪
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/t...
