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As data centers proliferate, conflict with local communities follows

The Associated Press

December 23, 2024

The sprawling, windowless warehouses that hold rows of high-speed servers powering almost everything the world does on phones and computers are increasingly becoming fixtures of the American landscape, popping up in towns, cities and suburbs across the U.S.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Amazon, data center, technology

Nashville rents are increasing at a slower rate. Here’s why it may not feel like it.

Ambriehl Crutchfield

January 12, 2023

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Nashville’s rents have started to increase at a slower rate. 

Filed Under: Business, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: Amazon, Ken Chilton, Oracle, rental prices

Nashville is adding thousands of high-paying tech jobs, and that’s more than the local worker pipeline can fulfill

Damon Mitchell

March 24, 2022

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As Oracle and Amazon start to bring tens of thousands of jobs to Nashville, the city’s tech industry is seeing a historic economic boom. But there may not be enough Middle Tennessee residents to fill the jobs.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Amazon, economic incentives, economy, jobs, Labor, Oracle

Nashville Approves Amazon Incentives, But Officials Hope To See Company’s ‘Community-Minded’ Side

Tony Gonzalez

May 10, 2019

Listen Now it’s official: Nashville has given final approval to a $17.5 million grant for Amazon. The city will pay the incentives as the company fills 5,000 jobs.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Amazon, News

By The Numbers: Nashville’s Incentive Package For Amazon

Tony Gonzalez

March 17, 2019

Listen The jobs grant that Nashville offered to tech giant Amazon goes to a key vote Tuesday night at the Metro Council.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Amazon, economic incentives

One Place Amazon Is Already Shaking Things Up In Nashville — The Health Care Sector

Blake Farmer

November 15, 2018

Listen Amazon will land with a splash when it builds a tech hub in downtown Nashville. But the company, known for its relentless pursuit of innovation, has already been threatening to encroach on the city’s leading industry — health care.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Amazon, Nashville Health Care Council

With Amazon, ‘Nashville Yards’ Development Lands Its Blockbuster Anchor

Tony Gonzalez

November 13, 2018

Listen Amazon’s 5,000-job announcement for Nashville also has major implications for the site in downtown Nashville where employees will work from a new 1-million-square-foot office space.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Amazon, Nashville Yards

Amazon Chooses Nashville As New 5,000-Job Distribution Hub

Emily SinerandSergio Martínez-Beltrán

November 13, 2018

Listen Nashville will be home to a new distribution hub for the retail giant Amazon, bringing 5,000 corporate jobs to the city in what public officials are describing as the “single largest jobs commitment” in the state’s history.

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Amazon, economic incentives

Nashville Mayor Says He’s Ready To Start On Next Transit Plan

Chas Sisk

May 3, 2018

Listen Nashville Mayor David Briley says he’s setting to work on a new plan for mass transit in Nashville following this week’s defeat of a $5.4 billion proposal featuring light rail. Briley says he’s already spoken with some opponents of the failed transit plan, and he intends to push forward with improvements to the city’s […]

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Amazon, Nashville transit referendum

Nashville Makes Short List For Amazon HQ2

Jason Moon Wilkins

January 18, 2018

Nashville is among the top 20 sites being considered for a second headquarters for Amazon. The company released the list Thursday morning which did not indicate any preferential order.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Amazon, News

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