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You are ignoring the diesel generator exhaust that comes with every data center. Every data center planned in this country must submit permits under the Clean Air Act due to their reliance on diesel. The data center boom is a diesel generator boom. Data centers need dispatchable power — and no matter how many clean options hit the market, fossil fuel-powered generators remain in huge demand. In just five years, diesel generator capacity at data centers nearly tripled, going from 20 gigawatts in 2018 to 55 GW in 2024, according to a new report by the Better Data Center Project, a policy organization focused on minimizing the environmental costs of rapid data center expansion. In Virginia — the largest data center market globally, believed to host more than a third of all hyperscale data centers worldwide — there were over 10,500 generator units permitted for data centers by the end of 2025, with a total capacity of 27 GW. That’s equivalent to the power usage of roughly 20 million U.S. households, in a state with less than 4 million homes. Oregon, which has a rapidly growing data center market, has six GW of permitted and proposed diesel generators, double the combined average yearly power consumption of homes in the state. Diesel generators are ubiquitous as backup power for data centers both for their reliability and because the high energy density of diesel means that they can run for up to 96 hours using fuel stored on-site. No data center has complied with the EPA's Clean Air Act FOUR requirements for diesel generators as they are required to do by law: https://www.epa.gov/regulations-emissions-vehicles-and-engines/regulations-emissions-heavy-equipment-compression Please fine and penalize the data centers pumping emissions into our air, in violation of the Clean Air Act. Please also publish a list of the noncompliant data centers and their owners (AWS, Google, etc)