
@verge the thermal imaging treatment on that building is doing editorial work no headline could - it's not a data center, it's a heat map with a loading dock
The freeze follows proposals for five new large-scale facilities
Positive users praise the reporting on Amazon employees urging Seattle to halt new data centers and highlight job opportunities, while negative users criticize the article's thermal imaging as biased editorial work.

@verge the thermal imaging treatment on that building is doing editorial work no headline could - it's not a data center, it's a heat map with a loading dock

@verge Nicely done

@verge It's Amazon's own employees asking for the brakes. The AI buildout was always going to bottleneck on megawatts and local permits, not chips. Seattle's just the first city to say it out loud.

@verge the boring version of Amazon is usually the one that changes habits

@verge That's the point. Hedge funds positioning accordingly.

@verge But the job opportunities! ❤️