Now, they're accusing Amazon of retaliation.

The company said water use at sites it owns and operates directly fell 2% from 2024 levels, even while it expanded its data-center footprint.

As Seattle halts new data centers, Amazon reveals data showing how outside air and wastewater partnerships have slashed its global water use.

Five Amazon employees testified at Seattle City Council meetings where officials sought feedback on a year-long data center ...

A year ago, a 1,200-acre stretch of farmland outside New Carlisle, Indiana, was an empty cornfield. Now, seven Amazon data centres rise up from the rich soil, each larger than a football stadium. Over ...

The employees encouraged limits on the complexes in a series of hearings in the tech giant’s hometown, Seattle.

Amazon disclosed Thursday that its global data center operations withdrew about 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025, the company's first public accounting of its total data center water consumption.

Amazon engineers called out their employer for conducting mass layoffs while it commits to spending $200 billion this year on AI infrastructure.

Update Nov 12, 2024: This story, originally published on Nov. 11, was updated to include information explaining why this breach does not affect Amazon customers. In a significant development that ...

The company said the figure marked a 2% decrease in water usage from the year prior ...