BOARDMAN – Blue Mountain Community College recently joined Amazon and community partners to celebrate the company’s 15 years in Eastern Oregon. BMCC has partnered with Amazon since 2015 when they worked together to launch the college’s data center technician program.
The college reports that since then, Amazon has invested more than $700,000 in scholarships for the program through the BMCC Foundation. During the celebration, Amazon highlighted its $54.8 billion direct investment in the region since 2012. Amazon also represents an estimated 2,500 direct jobs.
The event also highlighted Amazon Web Services approach to water usage in its data centers in Eastern Oregon.
“AWS shared that the facilities operate waterless 93 percent of the year and use water just…
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