Amazon wants to replace up to 75% of its warehouse workers with robots by 2033. What does that future actually look like? Our friends at @united4respect.bsky.social offer some perspective. www.fastcompany.com/91514112/wha...

Proof that data center development isn't inevitable! Maine is poised to enact a moratorium on data center construction through 2027 while they assess the industry's impacts on the environment and electrical grid. www.wsj.com/us-news/main...

Amazon already takes a 45% cut of the money that third-party sellers make on the site. Now it's tacking on another 3.5% surcharge. www.supplychaindive.com/news/amazon-...

...and this is exactly why we need to regulate data centers *before* people start getting sick. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

St. Louis Amazon workers just won BIG! STL8 workers went on strike in 2022 for higher pay, safer work, and a union. They won five federal safety citations, forcing management to act. Now, they officially won a federal ruling protecting their right to strike!

One more way data centers make life miserable for their neighbors: a new study shows they can create "heat islands" that raise nearby surface temps by up to 16 degrees. The effect extends 6+ miles from the data centers themselves. www.benton.org/headlines/ai...

...meanwhile, these tax abatements mean there's less money for schools and other public services that actually benefit Nevadans. A terrible deal all around!

⚡Missourians are fighting to BUST the data center boom! Join our emergency statewide Zoom call on Thursday 4/9 at 6pm to learn how YOU can protect your community: bit.ly/MOemergencycall

Billionaires want us to think rampant data center construction is inevitable. Local opposition is proving them wrong. Shout-out to groups like @goodjobsfirst.org , CAC Indiana, and Piedmont Environmental Countil, who helped pave the way 💪

"At a community meeting, Granville Mayor Melissa Hartfield warned residents, 'We’re paying to poison ourselves, is in essence what we’re doing.'” prospect.org/2026/03/05/o...

Silicon Valley relies on resources in countries around the world to develop its chips, train its AI models, and build its data centers. We spoke to some of the people standing up to AI companies https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-pushback-chile-mexico-kenya-philippines/?utm_campaign=row-social

Never forget that our own resources and tax money helped develop the technology that Amazon wants to use to replace workers. In fact, our tax code lets the company write off 100% of the cost of a warehouse robot as "bonus depreciation."

Amazon workers have been very clear about what would *actually* make them happier at their jobs: better pay, less surveillance, and more safety measures. Instead, Amazon wants to pay them $1,000 to put on a happy face for their PR campaign. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Jeff Bezos, one of the richest men on earth, is raising $100 billion to replace workers with robots around the world. The oligarchs want it all. Not going to happen. Stand up and FIGHT BACK.

Bernie Sanders and AOC just introduced legislation that would block new data center development in order to protect the public from big tech’s race to dominate AI. Here’s our breakdown: www.axios.com/2026/03/25/s...

AI-funded super PACS "are turning our elections into a for-profit pissing match between Big Tech billionaires." We couldn't have said it better ourselves. Great take from @usamahandrabi.bsky.social in The Nation. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

If you've ever slogged through an endless automated phone system or self-checkout line, you know that eliminating "real people" from the economy rarely benefits anyone except shareholders and executives. www.latimes.com/business/sto...

"Please allow us to keep building data centers with zero transparency or accountability. We swear it's in your best interest 😘"

Great analysis of how Amazon is positioning itself to replace USPS, and how that would lead to terrible mail service for Americans and a "decimation" of the unionized postal work force. ontheseams.substack.com/p/amazon-mov...

Seems like they're taking a page from Amazon's playbook, where prices can fluctuate by 300% in a single day.

It’s weird how we gave billionaires tax cuts so they would “create jobs,” and “trickle down” some wealth onto the rest of us, but instead they’re using “AI & robots” to “hoard all the money ” and “destroy all the jobs.”

This is what happens when the public doesn't get input on data center deals before they're approved. For every bribe that comes to light, there are probably many more that are shielded by NDAs and shell companies. www.oregonlive.com/silicon-fore...

Giant corporations, including Amazon and Microsoft, have earned record-breaking profits and gotten massive tax breaks from the Trump administration. So why are they laying off thousands of workers? This looks like another example of unchecked corporate greed.

Another day, another anticompetitive Amazon acquisition that it will use to endanger and replace workers. techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/a...

At least 60 Amazon Flex delivery drivers have been detained by ICE across southeast Michigan. Amazon is collaborating readily with ICE, and workers must prepare strike action in response to any effort to seize their coworkers. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

Oklahoma Amazon workers were forced to stay outside during a tornado warning. The message here is that billionaires rule over poor people's lives and the poor people's lives aren't a priority. youtu.be/gBzMbkPMr7A?...

Amazon paid $40 MILLION for the rights to the Melania documentary—$26 million over the next highest bidder. Why'd they overpay? Maybe because Amazon wants Trump to hand over a bunch of special favors. Was the Melania movie one big bribe? We deserve answers.

Amazon is now rolling out 1-hour and 3-hour delivery. Injuries have already been increasing near 'last-mile' Amazon warehouses that handle the last leg of the delivery process. And workers at the many Amazon sub-contractors are already heavily exploited and over-worked.

A mother and daughter in Kentucky have rejected multimillion-dollar offers for their land, offers made by an anonymous tech company trying to build a data center. Ida Huddleston has turned down $4,260,000. Her daughter turned down $22,224,000. www.lex18.com/news/coverin...

"Even conservative analyses forecast that the tech industry will drop the equivalent of roughly 40 Seattles onto America’s grid within a decade; aggressive scenarios predict more than 60 in half that time." We read these stats all day, and we're still shocked by this.

Translation: he sees a world where tech steals your water, power, labor, and creativity -- then sells it back to you.

...And even the ones that claim to run on clean energy often rely on diesel-powered backup generators that spew exhaust full of cancer-causing chemicals like benzene.

Amazon itself admits that some of its latest outages were caused by “novel GenAI usage for which best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established”. ...In other words, maybe replacing thousands of tech workers with AI was a bad idea 😬 www.ft.com/content/7cab...

We think OpenAI’s deal with the building trades is a cynical attempt to divide regular people who are fighting to stay afloat in an increasingly unequal, unaffordable world – a world that Big Tech helped create. www.axios.com/2026/03/11/o...

An excellent takedown of people dismissing the growing data center backlash as NIMBYism. Guess who's being hardest-hit by the pollution, rising inequality, high energy bills, and water scarcity tied to data centers? It's not the country-club set.

Amazon has been surveilling its drivers and warehouse workers for ages. Now, those practices are being applied to white-collar workers who are being pushed to use AI as much as possible, no matter how flawed the technology is. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

How ironic that Amazon wants to block companies from using AI to shop their site on behalf of customers. Amazon *just* got caught adding indie retailer's products to its site without their consent. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

...and these salaries don't even tell the full story, since so many of these CEOs get most of their compensation in stock. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy owns shares worth hundreds of millions.

FYI, data centers are still one of the most subsidized industries in the US. A non-binding pledge won't change that -- only organizing and policy change will.

A French booksellers' association accused Amazon of trying “to flood the market with fake AI-generated books, [which are] promoted by fake reviews, written by fake readers [and rise] to the top of fake rankings”. Doesn't seem that far-fetched to us... 👀 www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?” www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

This is even more infuriating when you realize that lots of schools and local governments get their supplies from Amazon. For example, @ilsr.bsky.social found that prices for things like markers can change over 300% in one day. www.retailbrew.com/stories/2026...

This sums it up perfectly -- this "non-binding pledge" was a glorified pinkie swear. It's not even close to tackling the real issues caused by unregulated data center expansion.

Amazon and Talen Energy wanted to expand a fracked-gas power plant and develop 870 acres of PA farmland for a data center project. Locals organized door-to-door and just had the request voted down *UNANIMOUSLY* 🦅💪🎉 buckscountybeacon.com/2026/03/mont...

According to this report, median pay at Amazon is around $37K, while the average American needs to earn at least $59,600 to afford a two-bedroom apartment.

People profiting from this: 7 Sometimes @theonion.com is just *chef's kiss* 👨‍🍳💋

Remember, ICE wouldn't be able to terrorize civilians without the cooperation of Big Tech. A new @wired.com investigation breaks down just how much it relies on computing power from companies like Amazon.

TODAY at 1:00 ET — join us to hear from leading thinkers on how powerful corporations are using pricing algorithms to fleece shoppers, and what cities, states, and the federal gov't can do about it.

Franklin County residents joined together to PACK their town hall last night and say NO to any new AI data centers in our backyard 🚫

On the very same day that OpenAI signed a defense contract with the Pentagon, Amazon gave OpenAI $50 billion in exchange for being its sole cloud provider for frontier models.