## LLM shenanigans
New gas projects linked to a mere ***eleven data center campuses*** around the US have the potential to create **more** greenhouse gases than ***the country of Morocco*** emitted in 2024.
Emissions estimates from air permit documents examined by *WIRED* show that these *natural gas projects* —which are being built to power data centers to serve some of the US’s most powerful LLM companies, including **OpenAI**, **Meta {Facebook}**, ***Microslop***, and **xAI** —have the potential to
# emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year!
## As tech companies race to secure massive power deals to build out hundreds of data centers across the country, these projects represent just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the potential climate cost of the LLM piramid scheme.
>Michael Thomas, the founder of clean energy research firm Cleanview, has been tracking gas permits for data centers across the country. He calls behind-the-meter power “a crazy acceleration of emissions.”
>“It’s almost like we thought we were on the downside of the Industrial Revolution, retiring coal and gas, and now we have a new hump where we’re going to rise,” he says. “That terrifies me in a lot of ways."
>Microsoft, meanwhile, is reportedly looking into purchasing power from a Chevron-backed natural gas project in West Texas. That single project, according to its permit, could emit more than 11.5 million tons of greenhouse gases each year—more than the yearly emissions of the entire country of Jamaica.
I've deliberately translated what is written to what it actually means for us proprietors of Terra.
Exact text is in link below
sources
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/greenhouse-gases-from-data-center-boom-could-outpace-entire-nations/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model
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