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Amazon paid Oregon officials’ company more than $100M while seeking data center deals
Amazon paid Oregon officials’ company more than $100M while seeking data center deals
Amazon paid Oregon officials’ company more than $100M while seeking data center deals

Published on: 03/23/2026

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Amazon paid more than $100 million to Morrow County fiber-optic provider Windwave Communications from 2019 through 2022. Four local officials purchased Windwave from a local nonprofit the year before. The four had served on the nonprofit's board, and all four played a role in awarding tax breaks to Amazon that have saved the tech giant more than $435 million.

Amazon spent more than $100 million buying internet services from a small fiber-optic business in rural Oregon even as the tech giant was negotiating with some of the firm’s owners — local public officials — for tax breaks and property acquisitions to expand a growing cluster of data centers in Morrow County.

News Source : https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2026/03/amazon-paid-oregon-officials-company-more-than-100-million-while-seeking-data-center-deals.html

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