Amazon Pledges More Than $1 Billion for U.S. Data Center Communities as AI Buildout Faces Pushback

Amazon said it will put more than $1 billion over five years into U.S. communities that host its data centers, pairing a new program called Built Together with commitments on transparency, energy use and water stewardship as AI infrastructure faces growing local resistance. The pledge, announced by AWS CEO Matt Garman, is aimed at counties and towns where Amazon builds and operates the server farms that power cloud computing and AI workloads.