Amazon to invest $1B into data center communities amid backlash against data center rollouts

Amazon is investing more than $1 billion over the next five years into communities where it operates data centers for education, job training, water preservation projects and other local priorities as it reacts to a growing backlash from politicians and consumers to the tech industry’s rollout of its massive centers. According to a blog post on Friday by Amazon’s CEO of Web Services Matt Garman, Amazon has already spent more than $1 billion in communities with a large data center presence over the past three years. The post Amazon to invest $1B into data center communities amid backlash against data center rollouts first appeared on KSTP.com 5 Eyewitness News .