{"id":10158,"date":"2025-06-11T11:20:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T11:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ai-data-centers-could-drive-a-new-wave-of-texas-air-pollution-report-finds\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T11:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T11:20:24","slug":"ai-data-centers-could-drive-a-new-wave-of-texas-air-pollution-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ai-data-centers-could-drive-a-new-wave-of-texas-air-pollution-report-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"AI data centers could drive a new wave of Texas air pollution, report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The boom in artificial intelligence (AI) risks filling Texas air with toxins, a report has found. State regulators are considering proposals for more than 100 new gas power projects &mdash; the vast majority of them entirely new plants &mdash; to power a new wave of data centers&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/equilibrium-sustainability\/5342046-texas-ai-data-centers-air-pollution-study\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The boom in artificial intelligence (AI) risks filling Texas air with toxins, a report has found. State regulators are considering proposals for more than 100 new gas power projects &mdash; the vast majority of them entirely new plants &mdash; to power a new wave of data centers&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}