@theslowai: Amazon is building a data centre in Pecos County, Texas, with its own natural gas power station on the site. The permit allows 33 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, which would make it the largest single source of power plant emissions anywhere in the United States. Amazon has promised net zero by 2040, and its emissions rose 16% last year. The company says the plant will be powered by new on-site generation that will not raise electricity costs for Texas families. That answers a question about your bill. It does not answer the one about the air. This is what AI demand looks like when the grid cannot keep up: a company would now rather build its own power station than wait in the queue. Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/08/planned-amazon-data-center-could-become-the-biggest-climate-polluter-in-the-u-s/ #ThisWeekInAI #AI #Amazon #DataCentres #ClimateChange

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