Your AI tools run on fracked gas and bulldozed Texas land
2025-10-20 17:57:48.709546+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Tech Crunch: Your AI tools run on fracked gas and bulldozed Texas land
The project, dubbed Horizon, will produce two gigawatts of computing power. That’s equivalent to the Hoover Dam’s entire electric capacity, except instead of harnessing the Colorado River, it’s burning fracked gas. Poolside is developing the facility with CoreWeave, a cloud computing company that rents out access to Nvidia AI chips and that’s supplying access to more than 40,000 of them. The Journal calls it an “energy Wild West,” which seems apt.