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Amazon Is Spewing a Record Breaking Amount of Pollution to Power Its AI Data Centers

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Amazon Is Spewing a Record Breaking Amount of Pollution to Power Its AI Data Centers
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Amazon is breaking all kinds of records on the back of the AI boom, and not the good kind.



According to new reporting by Axios, Amazon’s AI buildout has fueled an unprecedented leap in the company’s emissions, a black mark on a corporation that pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 not even a year ago.



In its newly released environmental report, Amazon disclosed that its total electricity use jumped by a whopping 34 percent across 2025, fueling a 16 percent rise in

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