Data centers could erase decades of air quality gains
Summary
Texas faces a significant threat to its air quality as the explosive growth of artificial intelligence infrastructure drives up electricity demand. The surge in new data centers could reverse decades of environmental progress, depending on whether developers and utilities choose gas turbines or renewable energy to power the facilities.
A rush of new data centers could bring air pollution roaring back to levels not seen since the 2000s in Texas, which has become ground zero for the physical infrastructure behind generative AI. New and proposed data centers are demanding a tremendous amount of electricity. How developers and utilities meet that demand - with gas turbines or renewable energy -…
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