The Shadow Grid: How Big Tech's Dirty Secret Is Fueling Climate Disaster The recent revelation that Amazon is building an off grid power plant in Texas to fuel one of its data centers has sparked a necessary conversation about the environmental impact of artificial intelligence and big tech.
What's striking, however, is not just the sheer scale of this project – permitted to emit up to 33 million tons of greenhouse gases annually – but the alarming trend it represents: the proliferation of inefficient simple cycle turbines in data center power plants.
This trend is evident in other projects as well.