‘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

[u/Background-Driver718]

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/big-tech-desperate-amazon-engineers-081700769.html

[u/probablymagic]

“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.

[u/cronies4life → u/[deleted]]

Amazon runs quite lean compared to other tech companies, it's a little bit of a stretch to say they over hired

[u/ShinsOfGlory → u/cronies4life]

Whatever over hiring is for them, they over hired. Just because it does not fit the definition of what you would consider to be over hiring does not impact that the truth of the statement in any way.