Amazon promises to spend $1 billion on communities close to its data centers, but critics push back

AWS CEO Matt Garman said in a company blog post that it will allocate $1 billion over five years to key issues that data center communities raised, including education, workforce pathways, energy affordability, and more. This amounts to grants of $200 million annually, even as the company allocates $220 billion on data center infrastructure for 2026.

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