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Elon Musk's SpaceX is building a foundry to cast turbine blades for gas turbines, aiming to accelerate their production to address AI's power bottleneck, though it raises pollution concerns.
Amazon's planned Texas data center could become the largest climate polluter in the U.S., with an on-site natural gas plant permitted to release 33 million tons of CO2 per year. The report highlights growing environmental concerns around AI infrastructure and Amazon's carbon emissions, which rose 16% last year despite climate pledges.
Amazon is investing in a new gas-burning power plant in Pecos County, Texas, to power its data center, with a permit allowing up to 33 million tons of CO2 emissions—more than the largest US coal plant. The report highlights the growing environmental impact of AI data centers.
Amazon is reportedly building a massive 7.65-gigawatt gas power plant in Texas to power an AI data center, which would become the largest pollution source in the U.S., contradicting its net-zero climate pledge.
Amazon's new data center is set to be powered by what would become one of the most polluting power plants in the U.S., raising significant environmental concerns.
A critical article about xAI's Memphis Colossus data center running unpermitted gas turbines, causing pollution and lawsuits, with plans to remove them only by 2027.
The EPA indicates that power supplied to data centers may be exempt from certain pollution laws, potentially affecting how AI infrastructure energy use is regulated.
A regulatory loophole in Texas allows AI data centers to bypass major air permits, enabling rapid fossil-fuel power plant construction with minimal public oversight, raising pollution concerns for nearby communities.
This blog post reviews recent scientific papers warning that rocket launches and satellite megaconstellations are depleting the ozone layer and polluting the upper atmosphere with metals, with implications for global warming.
The U.S. Justice Department is attempting to block a lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI for operating a power plant without permits, arguing that the data center's gas turbines are crucial for national security, including the war in Iran.
Communities near xAI's data centers in Memphis are protesting pollution from unpermitted natural gas turbines, while SpaceX prepares for a massive IPO that will fund more AI infrastructure. Local officials warn of health risks, especially in a historically Black neighborhood with high asthma rates.
The article criticizes Anthropic for making a deal with a heavily polluting fossil-fuel-powered data center, arguing that the company's ethical reputation is undeserved and that its actions contradict the narratives pushed by campaigns like QuitGPT.
Elon Musk's xAI faces a lawsuit from the NAACP over unregulated gas turbines at its Memphis data center, while SpaceX's IPO filing reveals plans to buy $2.8 billion more turbines for AI infrastructure.
A Texas drainage district discovered Tesla's lithium refinery was discharging 231,000 gallons of treated wastewater daily into a ditch without the district's knowledge, prompting complaints and an investigation that found no permit violations but did not test for heavy metals or lithium.