Amazon plans gigantic gas power plant for new AI data center
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To satisfy the enormous demand for computing power in the AI era, Amazon is pursuing a highly controversial initiative: The online giant, which is also one of the global cloud hyperscalers with its Amazon Web Services (AWS) division, plans to build a huge data center campus in Texas that is to be powered by its own gigantic gas power plant with an output of 7.65 gigawatts (GW). It would be the largest natural gas power plant ever built in the USA.
