{"id":18015,"date":"2026-07-14T08:57:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=18015"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:57:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:57:23","slug":"the-pollution-being-churned-out-by-ai-data-centers-is-so-severe-that-its-almost-incomprehensible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/the-pollution-being-churned-out-by-ai-data-centers-is-so-severe-that-its-almost-incomprehensible\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It\u2019s Almost Incomprehensible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This shows the hypocrisy of the disingenuous OCGFC, as they’re hyping global warming through their megacorp media with needing to save the planet, they just push that to the side for their big brother data centers…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/futurism.com\/artificial-intelligence\/pollution-ai-data-centers-severe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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By Victor Tangermann<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The massive surge of fossil fuel-powered data centers cropping up across the country are emitting an enormous amount of pollution, a pulsing indication that we\u2019re headed in the wrong direction in the midst of a climate crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The extent of the this polluting activity is confounding. As climate action group Floodlight found in a recent investigation spotted by Wired<\/em><\/a>, Texas has become the epicenter of the United States\u2019 current obsession with constructing AI data centers. Companies are exploiting regulatory loopholes as they construct new facilities powered by pollutant-spewing onsite gas plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rate of growth of this \u201cshadow grid\u201d of custom power plants, some of which are big enough to fuel entire cities, is so enormous that the only global entity installing more gigawatts of gas plants than Texas is China, according to environmental group Global Energy Monitor<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a national scale, scientists are still racing to wrap their heads around the environmental footprint of our new AI obsession. Cornell researchers found that at the current rate of AI growth, the burgeoning industry could represent 24 to 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions<\/a> by 2030, the equivalent of adding five to ten million cars to US roadways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, ongoing projects like the one in Abilene, Texas, the starting point of president Donald Trump\u2019s flagship $500 billion Stargate project, are obtaining environmental permits that are usually reserved for small businesses like gas stations or dry cleaners, as Wired<\/em> reports. The project\u2019s facilities feature a whopping 62 diesel backup generators, making it orders of magnitude bigger than smaller ventures that use just one or two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Floodlight, at least 38 data centers in Texas are using such regulatory loopholes to gain permits for onsite power sources, representing northward of 2,100 backup diesel generators, and yearly emissions of 2,500 tons of nitrogen oxides, which are highly toxic gases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One common tactic for operators in Texas, according to Floodlight, is to announce a small data center development that would come in under pollution thresholds, only to suddenly expand once established.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worse yet, for residents, it\u2019s already likely too late to do anything against the data center expansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe only chance to stop something like this is to do it at the very, very, very beginning of the process \u2014 before the permit is issued \u2014 through the public participation process,\u201d former Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) staffer James Doty told Wired<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This shows the hypocrisy of the disingenuous OCGFC, as they’re hyping global warming through their megacorp media with needing to save the planet, they just push that to the side for their big brother data centers… https:\/\/futurism.com\/artificial-intelligence\/pollution-ai-data-centers-severe Sickening. By Victor Tangermann The massive surge of fossil fuel-powered data centers cropping up across the country are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18016,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18015\/revisions\/18016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}