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It specifically mentions gas power. The air will be polluted and living things breathing that air will suffer. "AI" data centers are waste generators and planet heaters. The goal is to further wreck the environment and kill most of us. The rich think they can survive it somehow. It is unacceptable.
Power plants typically connect via the grid, hence aren't local to the data center. Changing over is trivial. All industry generates waste and consumes energy. That's not their purpose and framing it as such makes you sound like a raving lunatic. Destroying the environment isn't profitable. Same goes for killing everyone. You have a warped perception of reality.
You must not be following the news. Many data centers get local power from on premises gas turbines and more than a couple are doing so illegally. Put ‘ data center gas turbine’ into your favorite news aggregator and there’s hundreds of articles about this.
Then they wouldn't be clearcutting the amazon rainforest.
Cutting wood is profitable. Creating clear cuts isn't.
Not being forced to follow environmental regulations (hence destroying the environment) is significantly more profitable than following them.
Or do you think op is talking about companies who produce literally nothing but harm to the environment?
But they don't have to, and they don't generally ask, just do.