Amazon's GW Ranch gas plant · West Texas
Amazon co-founded the Climate Pledge. Now it's building America's biggest gas plant to power AI.
Fully built, it could become the country's single largest source of climate pollution. Most of it isn't built yet, and it doesn't have to be. Tell Amazon to stop its fossil fuel expansion.
What Amazon is building
Amazon's first off-grid AI data center campus, at GW Ranch in Pecos County, won't run on the grid. It will run on its own private gas plant.
And it's not a one-off: GW Ranch is one of eight gas plants being built to serve Amazon data centers. Amazon says the world looks different than when it co-founded the Climate Pledge. But decades of burning gas can't be squared with a pledge to cut emissions in line with Paris.
Why it's not too late
- January Texas grants the air permit
- July Land clearing starts
- 2027 First ~1 GW comes online
- By 2031 Scales toward 5 GW and beyond
The plant goes up in phases, and most of the pollution would come from phases Amazon hasn't built yet. The permit is granted, so this is now Amazon's call: it decides whether those phases get built, and whether they burn gas.
And data centers can be stopped. People across the country are pushing back on them, and Texas has paused new data center permits while its grid operator runs an audit. Meanwhile, Amazon's new Data Center Commitment says nothing about gas or emissions limits.
Our ask
CC: Kara Hurst, Chief Sustainability Officer
FROM: Prime members and Amazon customers
Don't build what would be the country's single largest source of climate pollution. We're calling on you to:
- Stop the gas expansion at GW Ranch. Don't build any future phase on gas. If it can't run on clean energy, don't build it at all.
- Commit to no new fossil fuels for any Amazon data center, and add it to your Data Center Commitment.