{
  "id": 17688,
  "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/08/planned-amazon-data-center-could-become-the-biggest-climate-polluter-in-the-u-s",
  "title": "Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.",
  "summary": "As part of a planned Texas data center, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could reportedly become the largest source of climate pollution in the United States.",
  "authors": "Anthony Ha",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "environment,finance-investment",
  "orgs": "amazon",
  "regions": "us",
  "published_at": "2026-08-08T21:24:02.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-09T05:10:05.170Z",
  "source_slug": "techcrunch-ai",
  "source_name": "TechCrunch",
  "source_homepage": "https://techcrunch.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17688",
  "original_url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/08/planned-amazon-data-center-could-become-the-biggest-climate-polluter-in-the-u-s",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}