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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.comCEO
Andy Jassy
Founded
1994
Valuation
$1.5T+
> Founders
> Products & Services
> Layoffs
14000 employees
Major corporate job cuts with 7,000 from AWS alone, primarily in sales, marketing, and operations teams
SourceAWS layoffs across various teams as part of organizational priorities review
SourceHundreds of employees in AWS physical stores technology and sales/marketing units
SourceHundreds 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:
- 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:
AWS investigation into Perplexity AI for violating rules by scraping websites that prohibited such activities[3]
Controversy 3 Sources:
> Data Centers
> Amazon Madison Mega Site
Project Rainier #speculative
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
Data Center Sources Sources:
> Amazon Ridgeland
Project Rainier #speculative
Location
1626 County Line Road Ridgeland, Mississippi
32°24'00"N, 90°12'12"W
Users
Energy
Data Center Sources Sources:
> Anthropic-Amazon New Carlisle
Project Rainier #confident
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
Data Center Sources Sources: