AWS CEO responds to data center controversy: no longer using NDAs
Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman said in a blog post that the company no longer uses non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) when partnering with government agencies to build data centers. He also rebutted four claims about data centers—that they consume too much water, drive up electricity prices, cause serious pollution, and bring no benefit to communities—saying that direct water use by data centers accounts for only 0.5% of U.S. industrial water use, that backup generators sit idle 99.9% of the time, and that over the past three years Amazon has invested more than $1 billion in U.S. communities where it has data centers.
Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman said in a blog post that the company no longer uses non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) when partnering with government agencies to build data centers. He also rebutted four claims about data centers—that they consume too much water, drive up electricity prices, cause serious pollution, and bring no benefit to communities—saying that direct water use by data centers accounts for only 0.5% of U.S. industrial water use, that backup generators sit idle 99.9% of the
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