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Data Centers are Being Powered By Giant Gas Plants, Possibly Increasing
Data Centers are Being Powered By Giant Gas Plants, Possibly Increasing Carbon Pollution for Decades
TL;DRTech giants are building massive gas plants to power data centers, worsening carbon emissions instead of reducing them.
Why it matters: AI boom's energy demands are locking in decades of fossil fuel dependency, undermining corporate climate commitments.
Rather than racing toward their net-zero targets, Amazon and other AI/cloud computing companies "are driving emissions sharply higher," reports the Washington Post: To support their data centers, tech firms are driving construction of a new generation of supersized, gas-fired…
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