<![CDATA[&gt; [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant.]]>> [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. The plant will be completely separate from Texas’s power grid

> The site, known as GW Ranch, got a state permit allowing the proposed power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide, which would make it the biggest pollution site in the U.S., emitting more than the country’s biggest coal power plant

https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/3653e954-2a7a-4d8e-b2c0-6e5767b2522f/gt-amazon-has-bought-land-and-acquired-permits-in-pecos-county-texas-for-an-ai-data-center-powered-by-a-7.65-gigawatt-gas-power-plant.RSS for NodeTue, 25 Aug 2026 18:56:49 GMTSat, 08 Aug 2026 04:34:54 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to &gt; [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:17:08 GMT]]>@dcoderlt To put 33 million tonnes of CO2 into perspective, my first online source says the average person emits 6 tonnes per year - so that's one powerplant powering one data center emitting the same amount of CO2 as everything that about 5 million people do?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.xyz/users/niklasnisbeth/statuses/117062200725487722https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.xyz/users/niklasnisbeth/statuses/117062200725487722Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:17:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to &gt; [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:38:44 GMT]]>@dcoderlt, sounds like a SPOF to me. What could possibly go wrong, etc.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.linux.pizza/users/lp0_on_fire/statuses/117061106020880301https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.linux.pizza/users/lp0_on_fire/statuses/117061106020880301Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:38:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to &gt; [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:29:44 GMT]]>boost with CN: "AI", fossil fuels

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://weirder.earth/users/j12i/statuses/117061070642974820https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://weirder.earth/users/j12i/statuses/117061070642974820Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:29:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to &gt; [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:03:05 GMT]]>@dcoderlt if you didnt already know, this IS war!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Myphatself/statuses/117060965868187310https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/Myphatself/statuses/117060965868187310Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:03:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to &gt; [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:22:44 GMT]]>@dcoderlt Off topic but that nuclear plant looks so awesome!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/krnlg/statuses/117060571278030796https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/krnlg/statuses/117060571278030796Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:22:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to &gt; [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:40:59 GMT]]>@SueHagley @dcoderlt Texas and Florida are by far the two worst places in yhe world.

Worse than North Korea, Iran, Russia, and Saudi Arabia combined.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116846923297027674/statuses/117060407107840448https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116846923297027674/statuses/117060407107840448Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:40:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to &gt; [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:35:46 GMT]]>@dcoderlt customers are just another natural resource to extract until dead.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.nl/ap/users/115530616978195275/statuses/117060150641696880https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.nl/ap/users/115530616978195275/statuses/117060150641696880Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:35:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to &gt; [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:36:40 GMT]]>@dcoderlt This is completely nuts. That's more than the entire power system of Texas!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/Dss/statuses/117059918284095268https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/Dss/statuses/117059918284095268Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:36:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to &gt; [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:35:18 GMT]]>@ar1 @dcoderlt Have you got Prime?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/Dss/statuses/117059912898102199https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/Dss/statuses/117059912898102199Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:35:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to &gt; [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:33:58 GMT]]>@dcoderlt "And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human." — William Gibson

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/robabram/statuses/117059199885373060https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/robabram/statuses/117059199885373060Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:33:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to &gt; [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 08:48:26 GMT]]>@dcoderlt theoretical question: would using a drone with semtex on it be considered self-defense? Or an infraction of T&C?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ar1/statuses/117059020793981868https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ar1/statuses/117059020793981868Sat, 08 Aug 2026 08:48:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to &gt; [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 08:44:19 GMT]]>@dcoderlt

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://indieweb.social/users/ohmrun/statuses/117059004607857214https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://indieweb.social/users/ohmrun/statuses/117059004607857214Sat, 08 Aug 2026 08:44:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to &gt; [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 08:28:56 GMT]]>@dcoderlt rich psychopaths

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/CheapPontoon/statuses/117058944165508427https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://beige.party/users/CheapPontoon/statuses/117058944165508427Sat, 08 Aug 2026 08:28:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to &gt; [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:41:46 GMT]]>@dcoderlt this is horrific, how is this allowed? Texas is in the firing line of the unfolding climate catastrophy

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastoart.social/ap/users/116347562449128351/statuses/117058758678397837https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastoart.social/ap/users/116347562449128351/statuses/117058758678397837Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:41:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to &gt; [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:41:09 GMT]]>@dcoderlt While setting up a fund to prevent the extinction of certain species. Bunch of hypocrites. Slap and caress.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/amalia22/statuses/117058756268739902https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/amalia22/statuses/117058756268739902Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:41:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to &gt; [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 05:10:56 GMT]]>@dcoderlt We need to start measuring them in flux capacitors.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/ap/users/116387395794911208/statuses/117058165565387047https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.vivaldi.net/ap/users/116387395794911208/statuses/117058165565387047Sat, 08 Aug 2026 05:10:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to &gt; [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. on Sat, 08 Aug 2026 04:39:19 GMT]]>To put 7.65 GW in context, Lithuania had a nuclear power plant generating 2.6 GW (and we shut it down twenty years ago).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignalina_Nuclear_Power_Plant

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ohai.social/users/dcoderlt/statuses/117058041248472897https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ohai.social/users/dcoderlt/statuses/117058041248472897Sat, 08 Aug 2026 04:39:19 GMT