Jamie Ruskin, Democratic Chief Member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, asked Amazon, Google, Meta, and Oracle to provide information on data center project confidentiality agreements, including the project portfolio and details of signing confidentiality agreements with local government officials. Ruskin believes that if local residents cannot understand the basic terms of the project, it will be difficult to judge the costs and benefits of data center construction, and they will not be able to monitor local governments. The investigation comes at a time when scrutiny of issues such as electricity, water consumption, and tax benefits in AI data centers is heating up in many parts of the US; Ruskin also previously proposed a bill with lawmakers from both parties to restrict government officials from hiding details of data center projects through confidentiality agreements.

Jamie Ruskin, Democratic Chief Member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, asked Amazon, Google, Meta, and Oracle to provide information on data center project confidentiality agreements, including the project portfolio and details of signing confidentiality agreements with local government officials. Ruskin believes that if local residents cannot understand the basic terms of the project, it will be difficult to judge the costs and benefits of data center construction, nor can they monitor local governments. The investigation comes at a time when scrutiny of issues such as electricity, water consumption, and tax benefits in AI data centers is heating up in many parts of the US; Ruskin also previously proposed a bill with lawmakers from both parties to restrict government officials from hiding details of data center projects through confidentiality agreements.