Last month, Cleanview broke the news that Amazon is planning to build a 7.65 GW natural gas power plant in West Texas to power a data center campus. In our latest report on Amazon’s power strategy, we identified seven more power plants linked to the company’s data centers.
Altogether, utilities and independent power producers are building 17.5 GW of new gas generation to serve Amazon’s growing power needs. That’s roughly 1.5 times as much power as New York City consumes at its peak in a given year.
“AI will help us solve climate change 🤗”.
Yeah, we’re doing pretty great on this matter.
Billionaires on big hamster wheels, energy generation problem solved. When they die of exhaustion then another problem is solved as well.
They meant AI will solve no one buying fossil fuels…
Remind me again… when Amazon bought the rights to the Seattle Center Arena… what did they decide to name it? So yeah, about that…
This is common misunderstanding most people assume a climate pledge to protect it, they pledged to destroy. /s
Texas pumps out more greenhouse gasses than any other state. On top of that, with just the AI build out already planned, Texas is set to double its greenhouse gas output.
On the brink of completely catastrophic climate change, after we have already passed the threshold for 1.5C of warming, America is trying to double its carbon footprint.
AI really can’t die fast enough.
get your fucking electricity infrastructure in order you backwards shithole
Texas doesn’t have enough water security for shit like this. You’re actively creating ghost towns at this point.
All for slop.
Green… water.
