Amazon's Texas Power Plant

The Signal · 2026-08-09

Amazon's AI ambitions may come with the biggest smokestack in America. TechCrunch reports the company's planned Texas data center includes an on-site power plant that could become the single largest source of climate pollution in the United States.

Also today: Anthropic confirmed it is forming a custom silicon team to design its own chips for running Claude, moving beyond third-party hardware.

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