Data center communities

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Amazon data center impact in communities Amazon data center impact in communities We continuously invest in communities where Amazon data centers are located by supporting local jobs, generating economic growth, providing skills training and education, and unlocking opportunities for local businesses and suppliers. We also establish sustainability initiatives and develop engagement programs in collaboration with local organizations.

Find out how our investments in eastern Oregon and northern Virginia have made a difference to the people in these regions. Watch: Data Centered: Eastern Oregon —A new docuseries that tells the stories of local people and what it’s like having data centers in the community. Read the report on economic mobility in Eastern Oregon .

Learn more about our commitment to renewable energy Learn more about how we're developing more sustainable concrete mixes. Learn more about our impact in eastern Oregon Amazon data center communities: Here’s what’s happening near data centers across the US Get the latest updates on how Amazon supports small businesses, creates jobs, sets up sustainability initiatives, and develops educational programs in data center communities.

Amazon renewable energy commitments will bring clean power to eastern Oregon Amazon is bringing more clean energy to eastern Oregon communities with a $1. 2 million contribution to fund a community solar energy program. 5 ways AWS data centers benefit local communities New study shows positive impact of AWS investment in data centers on jobs, education, local businesses, the environment and more.

Committed to our communities: The economic impact of AWS’s $15. 6 billion investment in Oregon From job creation to supporting local schools, community-based organizations, and businesses, AWS is proud to call Oregon home. An AWS technician gives us a tour of a data center in eastern Oregon—see what it's like inside Fidel Contreras is a data center technician lead with Amazon Web Services.

Follow him and his colleagues on a tour inside a data center and find out what it’s like to work there. A small eastern Oregon high school is investing big in robotics with help from AWS Building robots helps these Umatilla High School students build more than tech skills. AWS helped me learn how to build a computer from scratch.

Here's how you can do the same. Ruth Daugherty is taking a class, developed by AWS, on how to build and service computers. She told us what she and her classmates have learned so far.

Teacher works with AWS to open up tech careers in rural community Amazon Web Services and an Oregon community college offer an upskilling program to help local people access new cloud computing career opportunities, regardless of their experience. How a pro rodeo rider and AWS team up to keep eastern Oregon's data centers secure Farm City Fence provides AWS with high security fences for our data centers.

Learn about Farm City Fence’s moving story of friendship, family, and their hopes for the future, as they strengthen the foundation for a business they hope to pass to the next generation. Alma Nuñez Lezama’s business, Xocolatl Bakery, is one of many local companies in eastern Oregon that have benefited from AWS’s $15. 6 billion investment in the region.

In eastern Oregon, Amazon is working with a local utility to power AWS data centers with clean energy AWS data centers in Oregon are already powered with at least 95% renewable energy. 5 ways AWS data centers benefit local communities Recycled water from AWS data centers is irrigating hundreds of acres of land in Umatilla, Oregon, helping farmers grow crops like corn, soybean, and wheat.

AWS is partnering with a concrete company to develop a more sustainable concrete mix for its data centers American Rock Products is collaborating with AWS to lower the carbon footprint of new data centers in Oregon. AWS donates $2 million to organizations in Eastern Oregon The contribution expands the number of initiatives AWS already supports as part of our ongoing effort to invest in local communities.

Indigenous communities in Oregon open educational lab with AWS Our collaboration with the Confederated Tribes of Umatilla Indian Reservation will offer young people and the wider community interactive learning opportunities in science, technology, engineering, math, the arts, and tribal-first foods. For more information on AWS's investments in eastern Oregon, download the fact sheet .

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