Amazon engineers blast company for spending billions on AI while cutting jobs: ‘Desperate to build’

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Amazon engineers are publicly criticizing the company for investing billions in artificial intelligence while simultaneously cutting jobs, with insiders describing the push as 'desperate to build.' The complaints surface as Seattle city officials advance a one-year moratorium on new large-scale data center developments, raising questions about whether the company's aggressive AI spending aligns with its workforce reductions and local infrastructure constraints.