‘Workers need to be involved in these conversations’: Amazon engineers to be investigated after criticising company’s AI data center buildout – Amazon “may or may not take action based on what we find.”
- Amazon is investigating three employees over comments made at a council meeting
- The employees spoke during a discussion on a one year moratorium on data center construction
- Amazon said that it "may or may not take action based on what we find.”
Amazon is investigating a group of employees who attended council meetings discussing a year-long moratorium on planned data center constructions.
Five employees, who work as engineers, criticized the “all-costs-justified AI build out” that has caused data center construction projects to spread rapidly across the US.
Since attending then, three engineers were invited to separate meetings with Amazon’s human resources to investigate their testimony at the meetings, according to a complaint filed with the Seattle Office for Civil Rights.
Amazon investigates employees critical of data center buildout
In their separate meetings with HR, the employees were warned that the investigation could lead to disciplinary action, ranging up to termination.
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