(FILES) This aerial view shows an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center adjacent to single-family homes in Stone Ridge, Virginia on August 12, 2026. Amazon on October 2, 2026, pledged more than $1 billion over five years for US communities that host its data centers, the latest tech giant seeking to win over residents increasingly hostile to the AI-fueled construction boom. The "Built Together" program, unveiled by Amazon Web Services chief Matt Garman in a 3,000-word blog post, will fund free community college degrees and trades training as well as energy-efficiency upgrades for schools and homes. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images)

(FILES) This aerial view shows an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center adjacent to single-family homes in Stone Ridge, Virginia on August 12, 2026. Amazon on October 2, 2026, pledged more than $1 billion over five years for US communities that host its data centers, the latest tech giant seeking to win over residents increasingly hostile to the AI-fueled construction boom. The "Built Together" program, unveiled by Amazon Web Services chief Matt Garman in a 3,000-word blog post, will fund free community college degrees and trades training as well as energy-efficiency upgrades for schools and homes. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images)

(FILES) A Vellink Intelligent Metro/Regional Train by Chinese CRRC is on view at the InnoTrans International Trade Fair for Transport Technology on September 22, 2026 in Berlin. From AI-assisted trains to autonomous road shuttles, Germany's rail operator Deutsche Bahn -- long the country's laughingstock for its poor punctuality -- is working on the future of mobility. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP via Getty Images)

TOPSHOT - People take part in a protest against the US tech company Palantir, in Whitechapel, central London on October 1, 2026, to urge the British government to use a break clause that would prevent a contract between the AI giant and the National Health Service (NHS) being renewed beyond March 2027. The UK government is facing mounting pressure to end a £330-million (438 million USD) contract between the NHS and Palantir, as doctors, lawmakers and campaigners warn of ethical risks. (Photo by Henry NICHOLLS / AFP via Getty Images)

A Mathematics teacher (R) explains an exercise to a final-year C-series science pupil at the blackboard at Lycée Moderne de Cocody in Abidjan, on September 22, 2027. A handful of students puzzled over equations on the blackboard of an Abidjan maths class. Next door, the humanities classes were all packed. This is becoming a familiar sight across west Africa, where fewer and fewer students are choosing to study science. In Ivory Coast, just 0.6 percent of students sitting the baccalaureate in 2022 were on the elite maths-and-physics track, according to education ministry figures. Another 38 percent took the broader sciences stream, down from 45 percent in 2015. But Ivory Coast is not alone. Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Senegal and Niger have all seen interest in science dwindle, despite repeated government promises to produce more engineers, researchers and innovators. (Photo by Sia KAMBOU / AFP via Getty Images)

A final-year pupil in C, a science stream, looks for mathematics and physics books in the library at Cocody Modern Secondary School in Abidjan, on September 22, 2027. A handful of students puzzled over equations on the blackboard of an Abidjan maths class. Next door, the humanities classes were all packed. This is becoming a familiar sight across west Africa, where fewer and fewer students are choosing to study science. In Ivory Coast, just 0.6 percent of students sitting the baccalaureate in 2022 were on the elite maths-and-physics track, according to education ministry figures. Another 38 percent took the broader sciences stream, down from 45 percent in 2015. But Ivory Coast is not alone. Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Senegal and Niger have all seen interest in science dwindle, despite repeated government promises to produce more engineers, researchers and innovators. (Photo by Sia KAMBOU / AFP via Getty Images)

A pupil looks for a book in the library at Lycée Moderne de Cocody in Abidjan, on 22 September 2027. A handful of students puzzled over equations on the blackboard of an Abidjan maths class. Next door, the humanities classes were all packed. This is becoming a familiar sight across west Africa, where fewer and fewer students are choosing to study science. In Ivory Coast, just 0.6 percent of students sitting the baccalaureate in 2022 were on the elite maths-and-physics track, according to education ministry figures. Another 38 percent took the broader sciences stream, down from 45 percent in 2015. But Ivory Coast is not alone. Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Senegal and Niger have all seen interest in science dwindle, despite repeated government promises to produce more engineers, researchers and innovators. (Photo by Sia KAMBOU / AFP via Getty Images)

A Mathematics teacher (R) explains an exercise to a final-year C-series science pupil at the blackboard at Lycée Moderne de Cocody in Abidjan, on September 22, 2027. A handful of students puzzled over equations on the blackboard of an Abidjan maths class. Next door, the humanities classes were all packed. This is becoming a familiar sight across west Africa, where fewer and fewer students are choosing to study science. In Ivory Coast, just 0.6 percent of students sitting the baccalaureate in 2022 were on the elite maths-and-physics track, according to education ministry figures. Another 38 percent took the broader sciences stream, down from 45 percent in 2015. But Ivory Coast is not alone. Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Senegal and Niger have all seen interest in science dwindle, despite repeated government promises to produce more engineers, researchers and innovators. (Photo by Sia KAMBOU / AFP via Getty Images)