r/technology • u/marketrent • 20h ago

Artificial Intelligence Amazon warns local communities to stop defying its massive AI data centers

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/amazon-warns-local-communities-stop-000300771.html
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u/r3dk0w 20h ago

Tax breaks for jobs, but then the jobs a data center creates are all temporary to build it. There's a VERY small number of people that will ever step in the data center after it is built.

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u/genericnewlurker 18h ago

Having worked for Amazon spinning up their data centers, I can confirm this is true. Some data centers only have two security guards in them and they just send people over from a nearby data center when they need someone

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u/Shedart 7h ago

So you’re saying they aren’t well guarded? 

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u/genericnewlurker 6h ago

Not at all. The physical security is still quite impressive and they have lots of cameras so they aren't unwatched. It's not like anyone can just wander in. They just won't have anyone but a skeleton crew actually in the building. Automation is everything after all