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A planned Amazon facility in Texas would emit 33 million tons of CO2 annually via on-site natural gas generation, undermining the company's 2040 net-zero pledge.

Google's new AI model predicts hurricane intensity and track with unprecedented accuracy, giving forecasters 24 extra hours of warning time—equivalent to a decade of traditional model improvement.

Three Amazon engineers filed a civil rights complaint alleging the company retaliated against them for testifying about climate concerns at Seattle City Council hearings.

Anthropic pledges to Frontier carbon removal collective as AI energy consumption raises climate questions.

Current Amazon engineers testified in favor of a one-year Seattle data center moratorium, citing unsustainable resource consumption tied to AI infrastructure buildout.

SpaceX's amended IPO prospectus now flags water availability as a critical constraint for its data center expansion, joining power as a core infrastructure bottleneck.

Google DeepMind is opening a three-month accelerator program in Singapore for startups, researchers, and nonprofits applying frontier AI to environmental challenges across the Asia-Pacific region.