Amazon and others are done keeping data center deals secret. Is it enough to build trust?
Amazon will drop NDAs on local data-center deals amid backlash over secret AI infrastructure.
On TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts discuss Amazon’s decision to stop using NDAs when negotiating data-center deals with local governments, following a similar Microsoft move. The episode links secrecy to community backlash and hundreds of proposed or enacted moratoriums from New York to San Francisco. It also covers personal AI startups that want agent access to inboxes, files, and credit cards, arguing trust is their core product.
- Amazon will stop using NDAs in local government data-center negotiations.
- Microsoft made a similar transparency move earlier this year.
- Secrecy has fueled data-center moratoriums from New York to San Francisco.
- Startups want consumers to grant AI agents inbox, file, and card access.
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Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with opposition leading to hundreds of proposed and enacted moratoriums from New York to San Francisco. Meanwhile, a wave of startups is betting that consumers will hand AI agents access to their inboxes, files, and credit cards — if they can get websites to let them in.
On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Anthony Ha, Sean O’Kane, and Rebecca Bellan dig into whether ditching NDAs will change how data center deals get done, why trust may be the real product for personal AI startups, plus a couple of deals of the week.
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