The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It’s Almost Incomprehensible ^74.3%

futurism.com - By Victor Tangermann - 7/9/2026, 6:51 PM

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The massive surge of fossil fuel-powered data centers cropping up across the country are emitting an enormous amount of pollution, a pulsing indication that we’re headed in the wrong direction in the midst of a climate crisis. The extent of the this polluting activity is confounding. As climate action group Floodlight found in a recent... more