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Amazon’s new 7.65GW Texas AI data center power plant could become the largest source of CO₂ pollution in the U.S.
Amazon is reportedly building a 7.65GW natural gas power plant in Texas to feed a new AI data center, with permits allowing up to 33 million tons of CO₂ emissions per year.
Amazon circumvents community vote for massive AI data center using 45-year-old rules
Surprise, it's a data center!
Amazon cracks down on 'CPU waste' among engineers to amid AI CPU crunch [Updated]
Amazon Web Services is telling engineers to slow down on EC2 usage as it struggles to meet CPU capacity demand for external customers.
Big tech spends more than $1 trillion on AI infrastructure
Would these massive investments return an even greater profit?
Amazon accidentally spent $1.8 million using Claude for menial coding task, went 860% over budget
A million dollar "whoopsie"
AI tech companies have ‘hidden debt’ worth around $1.65 trillion, report claims
Mostly data center investments
Unlucky PC builder sent RTX 5070 from Amazon, gets DVD rewriter and a busted logic board from an early 2000's Kenwood AV receiver instead
Another person has fallen victim to Amazon's generous return policy, as they received a disc drive, a mousepad, and an AV receiver instead of the $700 RTX 5070 they ordered.
Amazon workers who testified against AI data centers say they were intimidated by the company, monitored at work
The three Amazon workers claim that they've been intimidated during the Zoom meetings and were being monitored while at work.
Amazon says its data centers consume only 0.075% of the water Americans use for watering their lawns and gardens
Amazon says that it uses 2.5 billion gallons of water annually for data center cooling but compares it to the 3.3 trillion gallons of water used for watering lawns and gardens in the U.S. every year.