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Amazon's new Texas AI data center could become the biggest CO2 polluter in the US — 7.65GW facility gets permit to spread 33 million tons of annual greenhouse gases, despite Amazon's clean energy pledge

Amazon’s planned Texas AI data center could emit 33 million tons of CO₂ annually, exceeding the emissions of America’s largest polluter. [...]

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Can our climate be saved by vacuuming carbon out of the skies

Imagine: A switch is flicked and, in a heartbeat, every process spewing deadly pollution into the heavens is replaced with something clean and sustainable. Sadly, even then, the Earth would still tip [...]

Match Score: 371.69

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In 2025, AI and EVs gave the US an insatiable hunger for power

You may be surprised to learn electricity only accounts for 21 percent of the world’s energy consumption. Fossil fuels and the rest all play their part to make the world go around, but their role is [...]

Match Score: 161.36

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States are suing the EPA for relinquishing its role as a greenhouse gas emissions regulator

California, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York are leading a group of 20 other states in suing the US Environmental Protection Agency for renouncing its ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissio [...]

Match Score: 143.55

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Amazon’s new Texas data centre could become America’s biggest single polluter. It will not touch the grid.

Amazon has confirmed it is investing in a large natural gas plant to power a data centre in Pecos County, Texas, a facility the New York Times reports could become the largest single source of climat [...]

Match Score: 78.39

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Why do AI data centers use so many resources?

With the AI boom, construction of new data centers has skyrocketed, and not without consequence — some communities that count these facilities as neighbors are now facing water shortages and straine [...]

Match Score: 69.87

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Startup uses ancient bacteria to turn Texas CO2 into green chemicals

Again, the German-Danish startup using ancient bacteria to turn CO2 into new chemicals, is building a new bioreactor plant in Texas. The facility will be located at Texas City, a major petrochemicals [...]

Match Score: 69.32

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Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change

Google has pledged "at least" $50 million through 2030 on "projects designed to eliminate superpollutants." The company will be joined by a handful of other companies including Ama [...]

Match Score: 67.60

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New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year. [...]

Match Score: 66.82

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NAACP sues xAI over data center pollution

The NAACP is suing xAI and a subsidiary called MZX Tech for allegedly operating unpermitted methane gas turbines to power its Colossus 2 data center in South Memphis. The association is asking the fed [...]

Match Score: 65.67