{
  "id": 17682,
  "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/977124/amazon-data-center-worst-polluting-power-plant",
  "title": "An Amazon data center could have the worst polluting power plant in the country",
  "summary": "To power its new West Texas data center, Amazon is investing in the construction of a new power plant that could be one of the largest single producers of greenhouse gases in the US, according to the New York Times. The new gas-burning plant in Pecos County, Texas has received significant investment from Amazon and, […]",
  "authors": "Terrence O’Brien",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "environment,finance-investment",
  "orgs": "amazon",
  "regions": "us",
  "published_at": "2026-08-08T17:53:34.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-09T05:10:05.170Z",
  "source_slug": "verge-ai",
  "source_name": "The Verge",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.theverge.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17682",
  "original_url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/977124/amazon-data-center-worst-polluting-power-plant",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}