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Amazon Backs 7.65 GW Gas Plant to Power New Texas AI Campus

Permits allow roughly 33 million tons of CO2 a year, a scale that highlights hyperscalers' shift to on-site fossil fuel power to bypass long grid interconnection delays.

Data Center Backlash Reshapes Primaries and Policy

Cox Clarifies 2020 Remarks, Pushes Data‑Center Moratorium and Frames an Electricity Crisis

New York Data‑Center Permit Pause Sends TeraWulf Stock Lower

Amazon Faces Civil-Rights Complaint After Probing Engineers Who Testified on Data Centers

Data Center Proposed Beside Nashville Zoo Draws Mass Protests and Zoning Appeal

Study Finds Data Centers Warm Nearby Neighborhoods by Up to 4°F

New Filing and Designs Intensify Scrutiny of Utah’s 40,000-Acre AI Data Campus

Maine Legislature Approves First Statewide Pause on Large Data Centers

Potomac Named America’s Most Endangered River After Sewage Spill and Data‑Center Boom

Data Center Backlash Intensifies as States Weigh Pauses and Congress Targets Power Costs