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753 New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 04/23/2026 23:30 EDT

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: New gas projects linked to just 11 data center campuses around the US have the potential to create more greenhouse gases than the country of Morocco emitted in 2024. Emissions estimates from air permit documents examined by WIRED show that these natural gas projects -- which are being built to power data centers to serve some of the US's most powerful AI companies, including OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI -- have the potential to emit more than 129 million t

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