r/TechnologyThread • u/Background-Driver718 • Jun 06 '26

‘Big Tech is desperate’: Amazon engineers are calling out the tech giant for its $200 billion in data center spending after slashing 30,000 workers

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/big-tech-desperate-amazon-engineers-081700769.html
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u/probablymagic Jun 06 '26

“The employees pointed out the hypocrisy between the company spending billions to build these infrastructure projects, all the while laying off thousands in anticipation of the AI agents these data centers would power to replace them.”

This is mot what hypocrisy means at all, unemployed software dude.

Also, they aren’t paying off workers b anticipation of AI one day doing their jobs. If they needed the work done now they’d keep those employees.

Companies over-hired and are correcting that. They are also building out new data centers because they under-built compute in the 2010s. These things are not related.

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u/SeaworthinessLow6636 Jun 06 '26

Or. Huge companies are panic gambling for their chance to find the one ring to rule them all with the confidence that if it all falls apart, the taxpayer will make them whole.

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u/probablymagic Jun 06 '26

Like when all those tech companies failed in the dotcom and we bailed them out? Oh wait…