More data center hopecore! NJ lawmakers overwhelmingly voted in favor of eliminating $250M in data center tax credits. Instead, the credits will go to economic development projects that actually benefit locals. newjerseyglobe.com/legislature/...

Plans for the largest data center in the world have been abandoned. Blackstone-owned QTS has decided not to appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court, giving up on the world’s largest data center. Fierce opposition and organizing from residents of Price William County ultimately beat out Blackstone.

Amazon is piloting a program that would automate staffing decisions to reassign warehouse workers to different areas throughout the day. Just another way it treats workers as replaceable, interchangeable cogs. www.businessinsider.com/amazon-wareh...

Especially good news since Prime Week coincides with the hottest days of summer, which can be a deadly combination for workers.

In the words of one electrician, "we're almost always working for the worst possible people in the end, but we all need a paycheck because of the unlivable world that those same rich people have created for us.” 🔥🔥🔥

Amazon workers who testified in support of reasonable data center regulations in Seattle are now being intimidated and investigated by the company. ...not exactly a great way for Amazon to convince the public that data centers are in the public's best interest.

Delivery service providers contracted with Amazon report being told they must "precisely follow any route Amazon’s software lays out for them, even if it makes no sense, to help the algorithm learn." Yet Amazon still doesn't treat these folks as employees. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

More data center resistance in the heartland! Residents in Hobart IN are demonstrating to let Gov. Braun know that data centers are a bad deal for Hoosiers. The state has already given Amazon $8 billion in subsidies for data center buildouts.

How ironic. The people fast-tracking data center expansion in the name of "national security" don't seem to care about regulations ensuring the government data stored on these servers actually stays secure.

If data centers are supposedly so good for the economy, why do 14 states refuse to tell us how much they're costing taxpayers in subsidies and handouts? 🤔

Anthropic released some policy proposals seemingly meant to reassure people worried that unregulated AI will lead to widespread unemployment and even worse inequality . Here’s what they got right and wrong 🧵

Even when you *know* these conversations are happening behind closed doors, it's still shocking to hear them say the quiet part out loud. And this is what people are talking about when they say Big Tech is a threat to democracy.

LOVE seeing a data center moratorium in Jeff Bezos's backyard. If it can happen in Seattle, it can happen anywhere!

Amazon never should have been allowed to buy MGM in the first place. Glad people are holding directors accountable for their involvement in these projects. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

This is what happens when you mix public institutions with billionaire vanity projects. Oh, and Jeff Bezos also wants to build nuclear reactors to power his data centers. What could possibly go wrong? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/s...

This is what happens when you let the data center lobbyists do your math homework for you 🙄

More hopecore on the data center front: Pulaski County Arkansas just passed a one-year moratorium on data centers this week! The industry wants these projects to seem inevitable, but they👏 are👏 not!👏 www.kark.com/news/local-n...

Bezos was too scared to show his face on the Met Gala red carpet a few weeks ago. Now he's trying to spin himself as a champion of that "teacher in Queens" who makes $75K a year. Nobody's falling for it.

It's easier to dismiss the people lawfully objecting to data centers as "foreign agents" and "extremists" than it is to actually defend these projects on their merits.

More of this, please!! Just imagine how many public services we could fund if more governments actually enforced the law and fined Amazon for its terrible behavior. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

To put it plainly, the companies behind the data center boom are straight-up *criminals.* @goodjobsfirst.org added up all of the fines they've racked up for violating privacy, workers' rights, safety rules, you name it. goodjobsfirst.org/ai-data-cent...

Amazon workers aren't convinced that AI is going to make their jobs better. In a survey from @united4respect.bsky.social, workers say AI is making it impossible to get real answers from HR, especially when they're recovering from workplace injuries. www.fastcompany.com/91541015/exc...

1. The data center boom isn’t a neutral response to public need. It’s a speculative race by Amazon, Google, Meta & Microsoft to consolidate control over AI and extend their monopoly power — while shifting huge costs onto the rest of us. Here's ILSR's guide to what we need to do.

Google and Amazon know their technology is helping Israel carry out a genocide in Gaza. Google even fired workers protesting with @notechforapartheid.bsky.social. Now human rights lawyers are warning the company could be liable for its role in war crimes. abolitionistlawcenter.org/2026/05/19/g...

Ooof, this guy is full of bright ideas as long as they don't involve contributing his fair share of taxes or paying his workers enough to live.

Name a corporate supervillain, and they're probably powered by Amazon Web Services. It's the technology that powers everything from ICE's mass surveillance to the deforestation of the REAL Amazon.

If true, this would be totally in character for Amazon. It's also a prime example of the kinds of info that most data centers store -- surveillance data for ad targeting and other stuff that nobody asked for. topclassactions.com/lawsuit-sett...

Our friends at @notechforapartheid.bsky.social and @amzn4climate.bsky.social are leading this wave of tech worker organizing 💪💪💪

...and PFAS are a key component in data center cooling systems. Nothing to see here, right? 🙃 www.eesi.org/articles/vie...

This Turnstile fan went viral for repeatedly being featured on the jumbotron at a recent concert with a message on their phone that reads “Utah says no to the data center. We don't want it.” Link: www.instagram.com/reel/DYZyTUZ...

More proof that the non-binding "ratepayer protection pledge" that tech execs signed was BS from the start. We need real, enforceable regulations to block data centers from passing these costs onto regular people. www.eenews.net/articles/dat...

Just as the data center backlash heats up, a bunch of identical state nonprofits have popped up to push propaganda for the industry... 👀 👀

...So according to this op-ed, the concerns about data centers are "understandable," and the solution is to... not regulate them at all? Tell that to the 50K people in CA who are about to lose electricity as the utility diverts power to data centers. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

People 100% see through the claims that data centers will bring prosperity to their towns. That's exactly why so many developers use NDAs to get their projects approved with as little public input as possible. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Amazon isn't even pretending to care about shared economic prosperity anymore. The minute it has a chance to replace workers with AI, it will. www.businessinsider.com/amazon-conti...

MYTH: Data centers with “closed-loop” systems return water to the ground and won’t deplete the water supply. REALITY: They still lose water to evaporation, and what's left is pumped back into the ground hot and full of pollutants.

Better late than never! Lawmakers in NC are questioning whether data centers should get tax breaks when other businesses don't. www.carolinajournal.com/bipartisan-b...

While Fayetteville residents were told to cut back on lawn watering, a data center campus was siphoning 30 MILLION gallons of water without paying. The utility still didn't fine the data center, noting that "they're our largest customer." www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Another great takedown of people who dismiss data center opposition as NIMBYism. "Datacenters provide a ... focal point where people can show up and directly confront out-of-control and otherwise impossible-to-reach tech billionaires." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"...last year, the country spent more money building A.I. infrastructure than single-family homes." ...and yet tech oligarchs seem surprised at the backlash to the data center industry 🙃 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/m...

Want to fight the power of tech oligarchs? Athena is hiring a communications director! Details here: forms.gle/8qvUM31qmuw5...

What does it mean for Amazon to move into the shipping industry? It can afford to undercut FedEx and USPS for a little while, but once it gets a monopoly, it will use its power to raise prices knowing folks have nowhere else to go. www.theverge.com/tech/923013/...

Know what a REAL fashion statement is? Workers using the runway to tell THEIR stories of being exploited by billionaires. #LaborIsArt

While Jeff Bezos co-hosted the Met Gala, workers held their own red carpet to keep the focus on what really matters. A round of applause for Ash Judd, Amazon STL8 warehouse worker in St. Louis and leader with @moworkers.org!

Now THIS is our kind of bat signal.

Amazon: Sponsors #SmallBusinessWeek Also Amazon: Gets caught referring to independent sellers as “internal competitors” 🙄

Jeff Bezos is co-hosting tonight's Met Gala. Let’s talk about who *won’t* be on the red carpet: - The innocent Iranians and Palestinians killed by bombs that Amazon’s tech helped target - The kids in ICE detention camps whose families were targeted via Amazon’s cloud computing and ad location data

Something different is happening this Met Gala… Not a red carpet. Not billionaires playing dress up. Workers telling the truth. 🔗 Go to the link. Add your name: laboris.art #LaborIsArt

If fashion is art, and art is political, then surely Jeff Bezos will be using the Met Gala to address why Amazon Web Services is collaborating with ICE and the Israeli military… right?

While Jeff Bezos plans his Met Gala outfit, over half of Amazon's warehouse workers are struggling to afford food.