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.

While Jeff Bezos plans his Met Gala outfit, people around the world are holding him accountable for what really matters: the damage Amazon is doing to workers, the climate, and human rights. #MayDay

BREAKING: Activists have shut down multiple intersections throughout downtown Washington DC in opposition to Trump's attacks on workers, DC Home Rule, climate, and international peace. The actions kick off #MayDay events across the country.

This May Day, people in NYC, Chicago, Missouri, Seattle, and Philly are calling attention to the ways Amazon makes life worse for everyone – by abusing workers, trashing the planet, and powering technology used by ICE and the Israeli military.

Amazon is trying REALLY hard to justify its AI spending spree -- but its latest earnings report shows that most of its profit comes from AWS and the fees that it collects from sellers who can't easily leave the site. www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/a...

New research from @publiccitizen.bsky.social shows that 82% of voters don't trust tech companies to self-regulate when it comes to AI. As data centers raid more of our water and power, we bet this number will creep even higher. www.citizen.org/article/big-...

THIS FRIDAY 5/1: Working Missourians — Black, white, and Brown — are rising up to join the nationwide day of disruption! No Work. No School. No Shopping. Join us, and wear RED: bit.ly/MOmayday26

So the EEOC just ruled that Amazon violated workers' disability rights by: ❌ Forcing them to take unpaid leave ❌ Demanding excessive medical documentation ❌ Unfairly denying accommodation requests ❌ Failing to ensure that accommodations were actually enforced www.abetterbalance.org/federal-agen...

Hate seeing corporations rake in profits while indie businesses struggle? Join our webinar on May 5th to learn how states and cities can take power back from monopolies like Amazon. bit.ly/fightmonopolies

Once again, workers were right all along. The EEOC found Amazon guilty of systematically violating disabled workers' rights. People who asked for accommodations were forced into taking unpaid time off, then fired before their requests were approved. www.abetterbalance.org/federal-agen...

Self-serving Big Tech corporations and billionaires have chosen a side – the side of MAGA and Trump. Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, Oracle, and Palantir are all profiting by feeding Trump's ego. Together, they're spending hundreds of millions to earn Trump's favor.

Join our training on April 29 at 1 ET: "Bans, Moratoriums, Zoning: How to Stop or Limit Data Center Development." Learn the most direct policy interventions to stop data center development and zoning interventions that can be used when bans aren’t an option: bit.ly/policy-in-practice-training-series

Amazon in particular hasn't just abandoned its climate commitments -- its emissions *increased* by 34.5% between 2019 and 2024. @amzn4climate.bsky.social is organizing workers inside the company to hold it accountable its climate impact. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Amazon will have you peeing in a bottle next to your mandatory Return To Office desk too, programmers. A company that doesn't respect some workers actually doesn't respect all workers.

Amazon's warehouse workers have dealt with surveillance, employment uncertainty, and grueling performance quotas for ages. Now, those practices are trickling up to the company's white-collar workers too. www.businessinsider.com/amazon-emplo...

Adding this to the mountain of evidence showing that Amazon makes life more expensive for *everyone* -- even people who don't shop on the site.

We’re sharing new evidence in our case against Amazon clearly showing the megacorporation is involved in price fixing. It’s clear as day: Amazon is colluding with vendors and other retailers to make your life more unaffordable. We’ll see them in court.

Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online

“They come in under LLCs and code names, they insist on non-disclosure agreements...it just makes you ask, what are they hiding? And the answer is, it’s a bad deal.” Great take from @goodjobsfirst.org in @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/environment/...

1. Amazon has built powerful pricing algorithms that have learned how to steer prices upward — not just on Amazon, but across the web. I have a new piece on how these algorithms work, and how they help sustain Amazon’s monopoly.