Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.
THE SO WHAT
If a single AI-heavy data center can top the national emissions list, carbon is about to become a first-class constraint in compute strategy. Expect permitting, power contracts, and customer pressure to push operators toward cleaner grids and explicit emissions SLAs—not just price and latency.
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