Amazon-Ingenieure in Seattle verurteilen Arbeitgeber für den Bau von KI-Rechenzentren und entlassen gleichzeitig 30.000 Mitarbeiter
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/03/amazon-engineers-in-seattle-slam-employer-for-ai-data-amid-layoffs.html
Amazon-Ingenieure in Seattle verurteilen Arbeitgeber für den Bau von KI-Rechenzentren und entlassen gleichzeitig 30.000 Mitarbeiter
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/03/amazon-engineers-in-seattle-slam-employer-for-ai-data-amid-layoffs.html
22 Kommentare
„slams“ really, what bollocks headlines and click bait crap.
“slam employer” ??? What did they do ? Unionize ? Walk out in solidarity? Or just “slammed” their desks at home?
What new features has Amazon released that would need so many devs? Even AWS now there isn’t much groundbreaking.
No please! Dont slam me please! -the employer
Omg Thank the lord himself they got slammed! True accountability
„slam“ like I wish it was real slam or something if I say I would probably get ban from reddit.
Hahahaha wow. As a driver, their app UI has been getting worse and worse each week I’ve clocked in over the past 3. They’ve also been outsourcing their support teams to India because they don’t want to pay US citizens US wages. This company is a fucking chode
Will the employer recover from the “slam”?
Guy working for fascist gets angry when fascist does fascist things – nooooo say it ain’t so.
Is a staffer someone who staffs companies and if so how many of these did Amazon have in Seattle that they can lay off 30.000?
Amazon cares about it’s engineers? LOL
Time to be creative and tax AI as a human. Automation destroyed, the auto industry factory workers. If you look at it, you would think that automation would’ve drove down car prices. All I did was raise them to extreme levels.
From the article:
>A group of [Amazon](https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/AMZN/) engineers appeared at Seattle City Council hearings on Wednesday to throw their support behind efforts to regulate the development of giant AI data centers
This is CNBC, so of course the focus is „OMG Amazon employees slam employer!“
And not „3 Amazon engineers speak in support of Seattle’s 1-year data center moratorium“.
>Schloesser and the two other Amazon engineers who spoke at the hearings, Liesl Wigand and Darius Irani, are part of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice. The group of current and former Amazon workers has repeatedly pressed the e-retailer on its [climate stance](https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/22/amazon-2019-shareholder-meeting-turns-testy.html), [treatment of its workforce](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/31/amazon-workers-plan-to-walk-out-over-lack-of-trust-in-leadership.html) and other issues.
Relevant that they’re not random engineers.
LOL. The people I feel the least sympathy for are Amazon White collars. I haven’t met one yet that I would describe as a decent human being. The one’s with any humanity leavea after a few years. You have to be a special kind of deviant to work at Amazon as white collar and even more of one to actually want to stay.
Years ago in a university software engineering class I had a professor tell us, „you will build systems that cause people to lose their jobs. if you are uncomfortable with that change your major.“
This is less “employees slam Amazon” and more “people building the systems are asking cities to regulate the infrastructure.” That seems reasonable. AI data centers use real land, power, water, and public resources. Oversight should not be controversial….
Seems they should have seen this coming.
Alexa, Where Is My Job?
These new AI data centers require so much electricity they might need their own nuclear reactors, yet human employees were apparently the ones „draining resources. lool
lol they laid off the employees to build the data centers, offset the Capex spend with people spend. Tech has been doing this since the start of 2025.
Come on and *slam*! And welcome to the ***JAM!***
They gonna crawl back to the same employees assuming they are not gonna start making money for competition without wasteful data center scale ambitions haha