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Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution

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Amazon is building its first off-the-grid data center powered by a natural gas plant in Texas, which could become the largest single source of climate pollution in the U.S. This move follows similar controversial efforts by other AI companies to avoid traditional power permitting processes, raising environmental and public health concerns.

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