Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

Amazon is building a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant in Texas to power a new AI data center, which would become the largest pollution source in the U.S. with permitted emissions of 33 million tons of carbon dioxide annually—exceeding even the country's biggest coal plant. The project contradicts Amazon's Climate Pledge commitment to reach net-zero emissions by 2040 and is likely to face significant public opposition, particularly in rural Texas where data centers are increasingly unpopular across the political spectrum.