Three Amazon engineers publicly called for oversight of large-scale data center construction as their employer cuts jobs to fund AI infrastructure
In what labor organizers are calling an unprecedented move, three Amazon $AMZN -0.42% software engineers put their names on the record at a Seattle government hearing Wednesday, pressing city officials to impose rules on the construction of large-scale AI data centers.
The engineers — Liesl Wigand, Patrick Schloesser, and Darius Irani — are all members of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, a collective of current and former workers that has long pressed the company on environmental and labor issues. At two separate committee hearings that day, the engineers addressed council members; a unanimous vote by the Land Use and Sustainability Committee sent a proposed one-year ban on new large-scale data centers forward, according to CNBC...
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