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The Single Largest Pollution Source In The USA Going To Be An Amazon AI Data Center - CleanTechnica

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August 12, 2026
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The Single Largest Pollution Source In The USA Going To Be An Amazon AI Data Center - CleanTechnica
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Help us produce all of thehigh-quality, original content we publish week after weekdespite the challenges of content-scraping AI, antisocial media, inflation, and other hurdles. It’s more important for ginormous tech companies and the tech-nerd billionaires who own them to keep up with the Joneses in the midst of the modern “AI era,” no matter the consequences. Amazon, one of the cofounders ofThe Climate Pledge, thinks it’s more important to build a truly unmatched polluter in order to power all the AI the company can throw together. The power plant’s 35 gas turbines are expected to emit 33 million tons of CO2 a year. )Amazon spokesperson Margaret Callahan’sresponse: “[the] world looks different now than when we co-founded The Climate Pledge.
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