Amazon Sustainability Chief on Community Impact
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When a logistics and cloud giant talks disaster relief and water stewardship on stage, it’s signaling that resilience and community impact are now part of the license to operate. Operators with heavy physical or data center footprints should be ready to show similar narratives to regulators, partners, and local communities.
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