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Amazon’s Pecos County project will keep drawing criticism from climate and local-oversight groups as the 7.65-gigawatt power plan becomes more widely understood.

This is one of the most consequential AI infrastructure stories in the feed because it ties data-center growth directly to a major fossil-fuel buildout. It will intensify scrutiny of how AI capacity is powered.

Amazon will face more community pushback around the Gilroy site and similar projects, especially where water use and public-comment timing become flashpoints in California.

This is the local-politics version of the AI infrastructure boom. As Amazon expands data-center capacity, communities are increasingly challenging how these projects are approved, powered and watered.