Datacenter bans top 500 as a hyperscaler brings its own grid

Claim

Data center bans topped 500 as New York and Texas joined with 150 towns restricting in July alone, while Amazon's workaround is bringing its own grid, a 7.65-gigawatt gas plant permitted for 33 million tons of CO2 yearly, double the nation's worst emitter, with its climate pledge unchanged.

Reported metric: 500+ bans / 7.65 GW

Reporting date: 2026-08-10 (not necessarily the event date)

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