{"id":20319,"date":"2026-10-03T12:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=20319"},"modified":"2026-10-03T12:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T12:22:10","slug":"amazon-promises-to-spend-1-billion-on-communities-close-to-its-data-centers-but-critics-push-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=20319","title":{"rendered":"Amazon promises to spend $1 billion on communities close to its data centers, but critics push back"},"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 Tom&#8217;s Hardware. Read the original for the full story.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\"><strong>Tom&#8217;s Hardware &bull;  Jowi Morales  &bull; October 3, 2026<\/strong><\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Amazon announced a new community program called &amp;ldquo;Built Together,&amp;rdquo; where the company promised to invest $1 billion over the next five years on data center communities. According to the company blog post , it will provide the funding to the residents while they determine the best use of the funds to be allocated, including projects that reduce electricity bills.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&amp;ldquo;With Built Together, Amazon will add more than $1 billion over the next five years to what we&#8217;re already doing &amp;mdash; with communities in the driver&#8217;s seat to determine what&#8217;s most useful for them across education, job training, energy affordability, water and energy preservation, and local priorities,&amp;rdquo; AWS C<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top:2em; padding:1em; border-left:4px solid #0073aa; background:#f5f7fa;\">\n<p style=\"margin:0;\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> Tom&#8217;s Hardware &bull;  Jowi Morales  &bull; October 3, 2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0.5em 0 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/tech-industry\/data-centers\/amazon-promises-to-spend-usd1-billion-on-communities-close-to-its-data-centers-but-critics-push-back-planned-spend-accounts-for-just-0-1-percent-of-its-2026-ai-infrastructure-investments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the original article at Tom&#8217;s Hardware &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: The opening of an article from Tom&#8217;s Hardware. Read the original for the full story. Tom&#8217;s Hardware &bull; Jowi Morales &bull; October 3, 2026 Amazon announced a new community program called &amp;ldquo;Built Together,&amp;rdquo; where the company promised to invest $1 billion over the next five years on data center communities. According to the company<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=20319\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20319","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=20319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}