Amazon engineers push back on company's heavy spending on AI data centers, citing job cuts and environmental concerns

A group of Amazon engineers attended a Seattle City Council hearing to support proposals that would slow or add more oversight to large data center projects in the area.

The pushback reflects tension between Amazon's expansion of AI and cloud infrastructure (which requires data centers to power AWS and AI tools) and concurrent job cuts in parts of the business.

For investors, this is not yet a major financial issue, but it signals that AI expansion brings labor, political and environmental pressure beyond hardware procurement.