So Amazon’s building a 7.65 GW gas plant for a data center and somehow this is still a surprise. The 2040 net-zero pledge was never the priority. It was just the thing you say at conferences.
This isn’t them flip-flopping. They looked at the economics of AI compute, looked at their emissions targets, and picked the one that mattered. The gas plant is the honest answer.
source: Amazon is backing a 7.65 GW gas plant for an off-grid TX AI…
