New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
- Posted on April 22, 2026
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New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.