{"id":20249,"date":"2026-10-03T12:08:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=20249"},"modified":"2026-10-03T12:08:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:08:52","slug":"amazons-1b-plan-to-combat-data-center-backlash-draws-more-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=20249","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin:0 0 1em; padding:0.6em 0.9em; border:1px solid #d0d7de; border-radius:6px; background:#f6f8fa; color:#444; font-size:0.9em;\"><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong> The opening of an article from Ars Technica. Read the original for the full story.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\"><strong>Ars Technica &bull;<br \/>\n                    Ashley Belanger<br \/>\n                 &bull; October 2, 2026<\/strong><\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>On Friday, Amazon committed to donating more than $1 billion over the next five years to communities neighboring data centers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In a press release , Amazon Web Services\u2019 CEO Matt Garman said that communities would decide how to prioritize funds across \u201ceducation, job training, energy affordability, water, and energy preservation, and local priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laying out other community commitments, Amazon also promised to ensure data centers wouldn\u2019t increase power bills or wipe out local water supplies.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top:2em; padding:1em; border-left:4px solid #0073aa; background:#f5f7fa;\">\n<p style=\"margin:0;\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> Ars Technica &bull;<br \/>\n                    Ashley Belanger<br \/>\n                 &bull; October 2, 2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0.5em 0 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2026\/10\/amazons-1b-plan-to-combat-data-center-backlash-draws-more-backlash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the original article at Ars Technica &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: The opening of an article from Ars Technica. Read the original for the full story. Ars Technica &bull; Ashley Belanger &bull; October 2, 2026 On Friday, Amazon committed to donating more than $1 billion over the next five years to communities neighboring data centers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}