Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year.
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Amazon's decision to stop using NDAs in data center negotiations with local governments comes after Microsoft made a similar move earlier this year. The shift reflects growing pressure from communities that have objected to the secrecy surrounding AI infrastructure projects. That opposition has led to hundreds of proposed and enacted moratoriums from New York to San Francisco, suggesting that local resistance is a real obstacle for data center developers.
The episode also touches on a separate trend: a wave of startups betting that consumers will hand AI agents access to their inboxes, files, and credit cards — if they can get websites to let them in. This points to a broader question of trust, both in how infrastructure deals are negotiated and in how personal AI tools access sensitive data.
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