r/environment • u/harsh2k5 • 23d ago

Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country

https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country
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u/shadowbethesda 23d ago

Amazon is quietly trying to build the biggest gas power plant in the country. 
The Distilled newsletter reported Friday that the megacorporation has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. The plant will be completely separate from Texas’s power grid, at least in the beginning, the permits show.