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Amazon has made<\/span> a series of new public commitments to communities where it\u2019s building data centers<\/a>, including making an official announcement that it no longer uses nondisclosure agreements in its arrangements with county officials.<\/p>\n

In a blog post<\/a> published Friday, CEO Matt Garman detailed the steps the company says it\u2019s already taking around data centers. In addition to stopping the use of NDAs, Garman says $1 billion will be invested over the next five years in communities that house the company\u2019s data centers. The money will go toward free community college programs, workforce training, and energy efficiency upgrades for schools, homes, and community buildings.<\/p>\n

In the post, Garman acknowledged how the fierce backlash<\/a> against data centers across the country is hampering the AI buildout.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now there are over 100 data center moratoriums being considered across the country,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIf these measures are enacted, the U.S. could be writing its own losing ticket to [the AI] race, and the consequences would last generations. As a country, we can\u2019t afford to find ourselves in that position.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nondisclosure agreements have become a key point of contention amid the massive data center buildout. Typically, local officials who sign NDAs with data centers looking to develop projects in their area are unable to share information with the public, including the energy and water use of certain projects. Many NDAs bar officials from revealing even basic information\u2014like the tech companies involved in building out the data center. In July, the New York Times reported<\/a> on how secret agreements at all levels of government were crucial in building out plans for Hyperion, its massive data center in Louisiana.<\/p>\n

There has been a rush of recent local legislation attempting to address the secretive paperwork. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, and Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer have all cracked down on data center NDAs in recent executive orders. Multiple states, including New York, New Jersey, Indiana, and Ohio, have considered recent legislation<\/a> banning the practice.<\/p>\n

At the federal level, a bipartisan group of lawmakers recently introduced the No Secrets for Data Centers Act<\/a> in the House. Earlier this week, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), one of the bill\u2019s sponsors sent letters to Amazon, Google, Meta, and Oracle demanding information on their use of data center NDAs; Amazon told<\/a> the Wall Street Journal that it was no longer using NDAs. (Google, Meta, and Oracle did not return the Journal\u2019s request for comment.)<\/p>\n

Amazon has been at the center of some high-profile controversies around NDAs. In Tucson, Arizona, Amazon was revealed last year to be the tenant of a controversial data center thanks to a public records request from a local outlet<\/a>; an NDA had been in place<\/a> barring county officials from sharing the identity of the end tenant. (Amazon has since exited that project.) In South Bend, Indiana, where the company has invested more than $13 billion into a massive data center campus, some elected officials have claimed<\/a> that local government employees have been unable to answer questions about the project due to signing NDAs with the company.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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