Amazon's Planned Texas Data Center Power Plant May Become Top US Climate Polluter

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Amazon is developing a large data center in Texas that includes an on-site power plant. According to reports, this power plant could become the single largest source of climate pollution in the United States. The project is part of Amazon's broader push to expand its data center infrastructure. The scale of the facility's energy demands has raised significant environmental concerns among observers and critics.

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