New Amazon Data Center Stokes Worry It Would Be the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments.

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Amazon has confirmed it is financing a massive, private gas power plant in Texas that could become the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. It is the latest example of tech giants going off the grid to get their AI operations online faster. The news was first reported by market intell

Amazon confirmed Friday it is financially backing a massive, private gas power plant in Texas that could become the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.

Kansas state Senator Cindy Holscher won Tuesday’s primary race to become the Democratic nominee in the state’s gubernatorial race, facing Republican Ty Masterson in November. Holscher clinched the nomination over fellow state lawmaker Ethan Corson, who was backed by the outgoing Democratic Kansas Governor Laura Kelly.

The company and Gilroy, Calif., officials spent years quietly negotiating a $2 billion project that few residents knew about until construction began

The congressman thinks it's time for a "Data Center Bill of Rights."

"The futures of data centers and cities in the USA are closely interconnected," the authors of a recent study wrote.

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who won a competitive primary Tuesday, has endorsed state and local moratoriums on data centers.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Bloomberg/Getty Images Amazon is upgrading its Indiana data center campus to support its AGI team's frontier model effort. Amazon continues to invest in its own frontier models despite last month's AGI job cuts. Amazon increased its 2026 AI capex to $220 billion, reflecting rising computing deman