Amazon engineers blast company for spending billions on AI while cutting jobs: ‘Desperate to build’

Fuente: New York Post

Amazon engineers blasted their employer at a heated Seattle City Council hearing this week, accusing the tech giant of pouring billions into an AI-fueled data center boom while slashing tens of thousands of white-collar jobs. The criticism came as Seattle officials advanced a one-year moratorium on new large-scale data center developments, citing concerns about power consumption, water use and the strain that AI infrastructure could place on local resources. “It’s been reported that this year, Amazon is spending $200 billion on capital, with most of it going to data centers and AI,” Patrick Schloesser, a software engineer at Amazon Web Services, told council members on Wednesday.