Amazon's Texas AI campus could run on the biggest gas plant ever built in the US
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Amazon's Texas AI campus could run on the biggest gas plant ever built in the US
Amazon's race to build more artificial intelligence infrastructure is taking a major turn in West Texas. Amazon has said its planned AI campus in Pecos County will be powered by gas generation built at the site, and the power project could surpass every other natural gas plant ever built in the U.S. What happened? Permitting records cited by Cleanview describe a 35-turbine plant with 7.65 gigawatts of generating capacity. Amazon later confirmed …
The future data center campus in Texas for artificial intelligence of Amazon will be powered by its own power plant on natural gas, of unusually large dimensions.
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