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Amazon stops using NDAs with governments on data centres and adds $1bn for host communities

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Source: Amazon

AWS chief executive Matt Garman said Amazon no longer uses non-disclosure agreements with the government agencies it works with on data centre projects, and announced Built Together, which adds more than $1 billion over five years for data centre communities, starting in the US. Amazon said it works with utilities and regulators so that the prices it pays cover both energy and needed infrastructure upgrades, will publish its data centres’ energy and water use and efficiency each year, and will use backup generators meeting the EPA’s Tier 4 emission standard at new sites.

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Amazon has dropped the confidentiality agreements that kept local officials from telling residents about data centre plans.

When
2 Oct 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0520
Who
Amazon, Amazon Web Services; Matt Garman

Summary written with AI by wheresthe.ai, from Amazon. Checked against the source on 29 Oct 2026.

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WTA-N-2026-0520: “Amazon stops using NDAs with governments on data centres and adds $1bn for host communities.” wheresthe.ai, 2 Oct 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/us-amazon-built-together-data-centre-commitments-2026-10/ (source: Amazon).

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