Lawmakers examine power costs and investor risks for Amazon AI data centers

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• US lawmakers, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, have launched an investigation into how Amazon’s AI data centers are affecting consumers’ electricity consumption and bills.

• The investigation focuses on AI-driven infrastructure growth, the electricity required to operate these facilities and the associated strain on local networks.

• Increasing community opposition to new AI data center projects is increasing environmental and political pressure surrounding Amazon’s expansion plans.

For investors watching NasdaqGS:AMZN, this scrutiny lands squarely on a core piece of Amazon’s current story: large-scale computing for AI and cloud services. As AI-related workloads increase, the company is investing more capital in data centers, power contracts and cooling infrastructure, all of which are the focus of regulators in this investigation.

Lawmakers’ questions could impact how quickly and where Amazon…