{"slug": "ai-s-energy-appetite-drives-nvidia-and-amazon-to-pour-billions-into-massive", "title": "AI's energy appetite drives Nvidia and Amazon to pour billions into massive power infrastructure", "summary": "Nvidia is investing up to $3 billion in Lancium, a power infrastructure developer with four gigawatts under contract in Texas, while Amazon is building a gas-fired power plant in the state with up to 7.65 gigawatts capacity that could emit 33 million tons of CO₂ per year, making it the dirtiest in the country, according to The Decoder.", "body_md": "# AI's energy appetite drives Nvidia and Amazon to pour billions into massive power infrastructure\n\nBy Matthias BastianSource:\n\n[The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com) The AI industry's hunger for power keeps growing. [Nvidia](/glossary/nvidia) is investing up to $3 billion in Lancium, a power infrastructure developer that already has four gigawatts under contract in Texas. Amazon, meanwhile, is building a gas-fired power plant in the state with a capacity of up to 7.65 gigawatts that could emit 33 million tons of CO₂ per year, making it the dirtiest in the country.\n\nThe article [AI's energy appetite drives Nvidia and Amazon to pour billions into massive power infrastructure](https://the-decoder.com/ais-energy-appetite-drives-nvidia-and-amazon-to-pour-billions-into-massive-power-infrastructure/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-s-energy-appetite-drives-nvidia-and-amazon-to-pour-billions-into-massive", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/ais-energy-appetite-drives-nvidia-and-amazon-to-pour-billion-weey", "published_at": "2026-08-09 09:26:28+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-09 12:31:00.126259+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Nvidia", "Amazon", "Lancium", "The Decoder"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-s-energy-appetite-drives-nvidia-and-amazon-to-pour-billions-into-massive", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-s-energy-appetite-drives-nvidia-and-amazon-to-pour-billions-into-massive.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-s-energy-appetite-drives-nvidia-and-amazon-to-pour-billions-into-massive.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-s-energy-appetite-drives-nvidia-and-amazon-to-pour-billions-into-massive.jsonld"}}