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Amazon Agrees to Settle $20.5M Class Action Over AI Data Center Pollution in Eastern Oregon
Residents of the Lower Umatilla Basin in Morrow and Umatilla counties, Oregon, brought a class action alleging that millions of gallons of wastewater from Amazon's data centres added to nitrate contamination of their groundwater. Amazon agreed to a $20.5 million settlement in March 2026 while denying it contributed to the contamination.
- Language it was published in
- en
- Date it happened
- 2026-03-31
- Organisation involved
- Amazon
- Product, system or model
- Eastern Oregon data centres
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