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Last month, Cleanview broke the news that Amazon is planning to build a 7.65 GW natural gas power plant in West Texas to power a data center campus. In our latest report on Amazon’s power strategy, we identified seven more power plants linked to the company’s data centers.

Altogether, utilities and independent power producers are building 17.5 GW of new gas generation to serve Amazon’s growing power needs. That’s roughly 1.5 times as much power as New York City consumes at its peak in a given year.

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[-] FirmDistribution@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"AI will help us solve climate change 🤗".

Yeah, we're doing pretty great on this matter.

[-] db2@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Billionaires on big hamster wheels, energy generation problem solved. When they die of exhaustion then another problem is solved as well.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

They meant AI will solve no one buying fossil fuels...

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