Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country

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.   The site, known as GW Ranch, got a state permit allowing the proposed power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon…