On October 2, 2026, Amazon Web Services chief executive Matt Garman published a plea that read like a warning. Towns weighing a pause on Amazon data centers, he wrote, could hand the United States a loss whose “consequences would last generations.” He compared private server halls to the interstate highway system. He said reporters were spreading “misinformation and outright lies,” and that “various countries” were “intentionally seeding misinformation in the US about data centers to trick us into slowing down.”
这句话的另一边的人是付薪者和县议会。 A级 马萨诸塞大学安赫斯特调查 8月21日到26日, 发现11%的美国人 会支持自己社区的AI数据中心, A级 纽约时间和西安纳调查 9月8日到13日 发现61%反对建造 包括47%的共和党人 民意调查反对地方数据中心,
马特·加曼要求城镇将反对亚马逊数据中心视为国家威胁. 房屋旁边的建筑是居民已经可以看到的.
亚马逊称超过100个数据中心 暂停罚单输掉
在那个 10月 2个员额, Garman wrote that “over 100 data center moratoriums” are under consideration and that enacting them would mean “writing its own losing ticket to this race.” “Just like the national highway system, our country’s economy, national security, and everyday lives stand to benefit immensely,” he wrote. Amazon compares data centers to the highway system because a public road sounds like a duty. These halls rent compute, and the margin stays with Amazon.
Data Center Watch counted about 45 projects worth a combined $68 billion blocked or delayed by local pushback between April and June 2026. More than 100 proposed data center moratoriums, in Garman’s count, are the political result. A New York pause on large data center permits is already in place for a year. On September 21, Texas Governor Greg Abbott told regulators to halt new data center permits during grid and water reviews. Towns blocking Amazon AI data centers are doing zoning, not sabotage.
参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦(Elizabeth Warren)按了同样的发票,呼吁全国暂停,直到社区能够核实"全部费用将由数据中心承担". 而不是推向住在那里的人。"
Garman answered with a foreign misinformation claim. “With any change, there will be important questions raised, but there will also be misinformation and outright lies, and in the age of social media and 24/7 news, myths take hold faster than ever before,” he wrote. Amazon says adversaries are seeding data center myths, and it offered “widespread reports” rather than a document a county clerk could read.
2026年10月4日的一幅相框显示参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦(Elizabeth Warren)在数据中心到达时按着谁付费.
Amazon says it no longer uses nondisclosure agreements with government agencies on these projects. Coverage of the October 2 post described the change as forward-looking. Amazon ended nondisclosure agreements going forward, not backward. Representative Jamie Raskin had just written Amazon, Google, Meta, and Oracle about that data center secrecy.
搭建在一起是数据中心开支旁边的小支票
The sweetener is called Built Together. Garman said it will direct more than $1 billion over five years into host communities, atop money Amazon says it already gave those places. The Amazon community pledge covers college costs, training, energy upgrades, and local grants. “This is not Amazon deciding what communities need, it is Amazon providing resources and letting communities decide,” he wrote.
站好 地面 技术中心 引用的原始文献, called the check “a drop in the bucket” next to “the $220 billion the company is investing in data centers in 2026 alone,” and “a plea from Amazon to continue exploiting communities at minimal cost.” The Amazon five year community investment pledge is about $200 million a year. A park grant does not shrink a power bill already in the mailbox. Amazon also wrapped the pitch in an Amazon Data Center Commitment, a list of tenets about jobs and a promise not to raise local rates. Tenets are not a tariff.
2026年7月1日,微软的Fairwater综合体的邻居在73亿元的站点上超过一发hum, AEGIS联盟关于费尔沃特噪音诉讼的叙述.
Amazon’s own job examples undercut the pitch. Madison County, Mississippi, is cited at about 2,300 construction jobs against 1,700 called permanent. Newton County, Georgia, is about 1,500 construction jobs against 400 permanent roles. Construction jobs disappear after data centers open. Local construction jobs are not the career a ribbon-cutting implies. Amazon says St. Joseph County, Indiana, could see more than $3 billion in taxes against about $1.2 million from the prior use. That is a projection, not a closed ledger.
水 电费 和排放 Amazon 称之为神话
Garman tried to rename the objections around water use. He wrote that a typical data center uses about 170,000 gallons a day, while an Amazon hall averages under 13,000, and that backup diesel generators sit idle 99.9 percent of the time. Cooling water demand does not stop at the property line.
环境报告不合作。 2026年7月1号 Axios报告 an Amazon emissions jump of more than 16 percent in greenhouse gases, with electricity-related emissions up 34 percent, while the company still points at a 2040 net-zero pledge. That record rise in Amazon greenhouse gas emissions is also a rise in carbon emissions the pledge was supposed to bend down. Axios said the halls withdrew 2.48 billion gallons. Verge指出, a 2025年数字接近25亿加仑的电站漏水。
如此规模的校园坐落于发电厂,取水许可,以及不需要负荷的街区.
The fight is already in court. In July 2026, The Register reported an Arlington County lawsuit accusing Amazon Web Services of misleading statements about Northern Virginia water and questioning a boast of being 75 percent of the way to “water positive.” A lawsuit over Amazon water positive claims says public billing records do not match the advertised cut. Stand.earth told Ars Technica the commitments also skip a Pecos Texas plant tied to Amazon data centers, warning of “33 million tons of harmful air pollution every year.” Idle campus generators do not cancel the plant built so the campus can run.
Household electricity rates are not a scapegoat. Garman blamed old wires and promised private money would flatten rates later. Ratepayer costs are already on the kitchen table. In Ohio, where Meta, Amazon, and Google have plugged in, Ohio residents blaming data centers for power bills have put up signs that say ban data centers.
俄亥俄州开票的历史流传着 将更高的家庭收费 与数据中心,包括亚马逊的。
2026年9月29日, 由Aaron Zitner走过的华尔街日报关于贫困数据中心的民调, 暂停为最高优先。 人们可以看到超规模的校园.
雕塑项目显示阿马松仍然想要
Wharton County gives the pitch a street address. Project Eagle is a roughly $10 billion plan for about 3,000 acres outside Boling, a town of fewer than 400 people. Groundwater permits issued in May 2026 and again in early September allow millions of gallons a year and do not cover surface water. Wharton County Amazon groundwater permits were already in hand when Abbott’s September 21 order told regulators to stop new data center permits. On October 4, residents were still opposing the campus.
序列公布,取出水源,再给邻居打电话误传. 当Google公司向Meta出售其配置的能力时, 算盘的账号 显示。 数据中心的热量、噪音和负载是邻居实际得到的。
President Donald Trump has used the same rival-country line to swat guardrails, including criticism of the New York pause. The UMass poll found fewer than one in four Americans think he is handling artificial intelligence well. A national AI race argument does not pay a cooperative bill in Ohio, and it does not refill a well in Boling.
数据中心反弹的真实答案会承认
同意从现场水、投票前的速率影响和起重机离开后留下的工作开始。 证明受外事影响的索赔或放弃索赔。 AWS首席执行官马特·加曼(Matt Garman)写了大约3000个字. 他没有公布资产负债表。
地方听证会已经将短暂的暂停作为普通政府处理. 奥克兰关于45天的争论是 亚马逊宁可称之为输球
AI data centers will not become welcome because a program was named Built Together. Power bills rose where the load landed. Emissions jumped while the net-zero line stayed up. Water totals arrived late and under legal challenge. The community backlash is the rational reading. Towns are refusing to let Amazon write the bill and then call the refusal a lie.
报告的内容更多 商业新闻 报告 数据中心 文件,与宽度 新闻 办公桌。
亚马逊告诉城镇不要拒绝. 电费、水费和排放是更难的事情。
