Amazon’s just bought a colossal Texas power plant—designed specifically to fuel one of its data centers—and it’s set to become one of the country’s largest greenhouse gas emitters. Built with inefficient simple cycle turbines that waste massive amounts of heat, the facility could pump out 33 million tons of emissions annually—even at half capacity, it’d outpollute 78 average natural gas plants. While Amazon touts on-site power, cost savings, and future solar/battery plans, critics warn this trend—shared by Meta, Microsoft, and xAI—is locking in decades of fossil fuel dependency for AI-driven tech growth, risking stranded infrastructure as demand shifts.
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