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AWS AI services, Alexa, Amazon Bedrock (LLM platform), uses customer data and scraped content. Massive surveillance via Ring, Alexa devices. Significant AI-related layoffs.

Website

https://amazon.com

CEO

Andy Jassy

Founded

1994

Valuation

$1.5T+

> Social Media

Twitter/X

@Amazon

Instagram

@amazon

TikTok

@amazon

> Founders

Jeff Bezos

> Products & Services

AlexaAmazon BedrockAWS AI servicesRing surveillance

> Funding

Total: Publicly traded

Latest Round: IPO: May 1997

Investors:

  • Stock ticker: AMZN

> Layoffs

14000 employees

Major corporate job cuts with 7,000 from AWS alone, primarily in sales, marketing, and operations teams

Source

AWS layoffs across various teams as part of organizational priorities review

Source

Hundreds of employees in AWS physical stores technology and sales/marketing units

Source

Hundreds of employees in AWS physical stores technology and sales/marketing units

Source

> Controversies

AWS service terms allowing use of customer data for service improvement by default in certain AI services[1]

Controversy 1 Sources:

  1. AWS AI opt-out policies(2025-07)

Backing Anthropic which was sued by Reddit for illegally scraping user comments to train AI models without consent[2]

Controversy 2 Sources:

  1. Reddit sues AI company Anthropic for scraping user comments(2025-06)

AWS investigation into Perplexity AI for violating rules by scraping websites that prohibited such activities[3]

Controversy 3 Sources:

  1. AWS Perplexity bot scraping investigation(2024-06)

> Direct Action

Tech Workers Organizing ResourcesorganizingActive

Resources for tech workers organizing at major tech companies including Amazon

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> Union & Labor

Employee Count

1,750,000 employees

Union Status

⚡ Organizing

Organizing Efforts

Amazon Labor Union (ALU) wins first union election at JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island

Union: Amazon Labor Union (ALU)

completed
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Ongoing organizing efforts at Amazon facilities nationwide

Union: Amazon Labor Union (ALU)

active

Labor Violations

unfair labor-practiceNLRB

NLRB found Amazon violated labor law during union organizing campaigns

resolved
retaliationNLRB

Multiple reports of retaliation against union organizers

pending

> Office Locations

HQMap

440 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, WA, USA

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Manhattan West, New York, NY, USA

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55 Pier 4 Blvd, Boston, MA, USA

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11501 Alterra Parkway, Austin, TX, USA

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London, United Kingdom

UK headquarters

> Data Centers

> Amazon Madison Mega Site

Project Rainier #speculative

Owner

Location

Amazon Data Services Inc, Madison Mega Site Nissan Parkway and Highway 22 Canton, Mississippi Madison County

32°35'25"N, 90°05'35"W

H100 Equiv

214.3K

Power

341 MW

Cost

$10.89B

Users

Anthropicspeculative

Data Center Sources Sources:

  1. Epoch AI, 'Frontier Data Centers'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/data/data-centers' [online resource]. Accessed 5 Jan 2026.(2026-01-05)

> Amazon Ridgeland

Project Rainier #speculative

Owner

Location

1626 County Line Road Ridgeland, Mississippi

32°24'00"N, 90°12'12"W

Users

Anthropicspeculative

Energy

Entergy

Data Center Sources Sources:

  1. Epoch AI, 'Frontier Data Centers'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/data/data-centers' [online resource]. Accessed 5 Jan 2026.(2026-01-05)

> Anthropic-Amazon New Carlisle

Project Rainier #confident

Owner

Location

55001 Larrison Blvd, New Carlisle, IN 46552

41°41'36"N, 86°27'39"W

H100 Equiv

471.6K

Power

751 MW

Cost

$23.97B

Users

Anthropicconfident

Data Center Sources Sources:

  1. Epoch AI, 'Frontier Data Centers'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/data/data-centers' [online resource]. Accessed 5 Jan 2026.(2026-01-05)

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