The company says it plans to do more. Through its “Built Together” initiative, Amazon says it will “add more than $1 billion over the next five years to what we’re already doing — with communities in the driver’s seat to determine what’s most useful for them across education, job training, energy affordability, water and energy preservation, and local priorities.”
Garman insists that data centers can’t be separated from the revolutionary impact of AI. U.S. President Donald Trump appears to agree, at least on the “revolutionary impact” aspect, and has repeatedly expressed a desire to maintain a lead over China. On the other hand, data center critics claim that responsible implementation of the build-outs, and not AI itself, is the bone of contention.
Like several industry leaders and hyperscalers, Garman insists that many of the issues were being blown out of proportion, and implied that much of the anti-data center sentiment could be traced to nefarious foreign influence. “With any change, there will be important questions raised, but there will also be misinformation and outright lies, and in the age of social media and 24/7 news, myths take hold faster than ever before. In fact, this buildout is so important geopolitically that there are widespread reports of various countries intentionally seeding misinformation in the U.S. about data centers to trick us into slowing down,” he said.
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Zaranthos Same reason why modern nuclear power was blocked for decades. Little crybabies afraid to embrace the future because they're ruled by irrational fear and easily manipulated. There is always a cost to progress, stop acting like all progress requires Utopian perfection. The railroad caused disruptions for some. The interstate highway system as well. Building the modern electric power grid decimated the gas lighting industry and the ice delivery companies along with many other unpopular things at the time. The automobile wiped out the stage coach business among other things. All important advancements that came with a cost. Reply
cknobman Does anyone find it odd, and very concerning, these data centers "have" to be near our communities? I mean if we need these data centers for AI and national security why can't they build them out away from everyone on unused land? Reply
cknobman Zaranthos said: Same reason why modern nuclear power was blocked for decades. Little crybabies afraid to embrace the future because they're ruled by irrational fear and easily manipulated. There is always a cost to progress, stop acting like all progress requires Utopian perfection. The railroad caused disruptions for some. The interstate highway system as well. Building the modern electric power grid decimated the gas lighting industry and the ice delivery companies along with many other unpopular things at the time. The automobile wiped out the stage coach business among other things. All important advancements that came with a cost. Here is your sign. That is the most obtuse response I've seen in a long time. Reply
PEnns Zaranthos said: Same reason why modern nuclear power was blocked for decades. Little crybabies afraid to embrace the future because they're ruled by irrational fear and easily manipulated. There is always a cost to progress, stop acting like all progress requires Utopian perfection. The railroad caused disruptions for some. The interstate highway system as well. Building the modern electric power grid decimated the gas lighting industry and the ice delivery companies along with many other unpopular things at the time. The automobile wiped out the stage coach business among other things. All important advancements that came with a cost. If you were living near Fukushima, 3 Mile Island or Chernobyl, et al, you would be singing a vastly different tune and not making fun of affected people who you call "crybabies". Of course, newer nuclear reactors are "relatively" safer, except when they are not. And too bad they have that thing called "nuclear waste" that gets buried "somewhere" but stays lethal for thousands of years. And of course they have to be built very close to major human populations, fro some strange reason. I guess their owners hate long commutes. Makes perfect sense, doesn't it!! Now, the latest news says they are racing to put them on the moon. Hey, I have a great idea for you….. Reply
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