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Investors press Amazon, Microsoft and Google on water, power use in US data centers

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Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet have each abandoned construction of multibillion-dollar data centers amid community opposition and now face shareholder pressure over the environmental impact of those projects. The developments increase execution, permitting and reputational risk for cloud infrastructure rollouts, creating modest downside to near-term sentiment and potential capex uncertainty for the companies and the broader data-center sector.

Analysis

Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet have each abandoned construction of multibillion-dollar data centers amid community opposition and now face shareholder pressure over the environmental impact of those projects. The developments increase execution, permitting and reputational risk for cloud infrastructure rollouts, creating modest downside to near-term sentiment and potential capex uncertainty for the companies and the broader data-center sector.

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