Data Centers are Being Powered By Giant Gas Plants, Possibly Increasing Carbon Pollution for Decades
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The Washington Post reports that Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Google and others are backing large gas-fired power plants to feed their AI and cloud data centers, potentially locking in hundreds of millions of tons of carbon emissions for decades.