Amazon.com (AMZN) Cancels $427 Million Loudoun County Data Center Project

Amazon.com (NasdaqGS:AMZN) dropped plans for a US$427 million data center complex in Loudoun County after sustained local opposition. The group redirected part of the cancelled data center budget toward new community investment initiatives in Northern Virginia, according to local officials. Anthropic reported that cloud capacity for AI workloads is being rationed across large providers, including Amazon Web Services, due to supply constraints. Security teams at Amazon are responding to the...