{
  "id": 18965,
  "url": "https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/09/amazon-building-new-ai-data-center-texas-become-countrys-largest-source-carbon-emissions",
  "title": "Amazon is building a new AI data center in Texas that could become the country’s largest source of carbon emissions",
  "summary": "A data center facility being constructed by Amazon.com Inc. to host workloads for Amazon Web Services is set to become the single-largest source of pollution in the entire U.S., according to a report by the New York Times Saturday. The company, which already operates more data center facilities globally than any other organization, has secured […] The post Amazon is building a new AI data center in Texas that could become the country’s largest source of carbon emissions appeared first on Silicon",
  "authors": "Mike Wheatley",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "environment",
  "orgs": "amazon",
  "regions": "us",
  "published_at": "2026-08-09T23:43:43.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-13T05:10:37.786Z",
  "source_slug": "x-siliconangle-ai",
  "source_name": "SiliconANGLE AI",
  "source_homepage": "https://siliconangle.com/category/ai/",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18965",
  "original_url": "https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/09/amazon-building-new-ai-data-center-texas-become-countrys-largest-source-carbon-emissions",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}