The construction of an Amazon data center in eastern Oregon, United States, has sparked local uproar due to serious environmental and social consequences.

Morrow County is experiencing a silent crisis: wells contaminated by nitrates, thirsty data centers, and a population afraid to drink from the tap.

Amazon has come to the state's eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that's been linked to cancer and miscarriages ...

Morrow County, Oregon, is home to mega farms and food processing plants. But it’s also home to several Amazon data centers. And now, some experts believe, that combination is leading to an alarmingly ...

The effort is drawing bipartisan support and is expected to come up again next year as officials grapple with the artificial ...

The Oregon Public Utility Commission has reaffirmed its approval of a nearly 300-mile electrical transmission line that’s set to run from Idaho and carry power across five Oregon counties – despite ...

Amazon.com Inc.’s data center operation is much larger than commonly understood, totaling more than 900 facilities in more than 50 countries, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg and ...

Amazon's (AMZN) data center operations are larger than commonly known and span over 900 facilities in more than 50 countries, Bloomberg News reported, citing documents reviewed by the news outlet and ...

In Oregon, Morrow County's drinking water quality is jeopardized by high nitrate levels from agriculture and Amazon data ...

Reporters document how nitrate-contaminated well water — linked by health experts to rare cancers, miscarriages, and kidney damage — is being used to cool Amazon’s servers, then returned even more ...

The Google announcement was also the official launch of AWS Interconnect - multicloud, which proffers private connections to ...

Amazon Web Services is making a sizable new investment in infrastructure designed to boost AI capabilities for U.S. government organizations. AWS announced Monday it is investing $50 billion to build ...