Plus: A new Amazon data center could become the US’s most polluting power plant.
Amazon is building a 7.65-GW gas plant in Texas for an AI data center, becoming the US's largest pollution source at 33M tons CO2/year. The move forces tech leaders to weigh compute scaling against ESG compliance, regulatory risk, and energy budgets.
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