A company planning data centers for artificial intelligence across the U.S. and Canada is seeking a permit for a gas-fired power plant to supply a planned data center in central Texas.

On June 16, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) announced that Beacon Data Centers has applied for an air construction permit to build the Dove Creek Technology Campus Power Plant in Tom Green County. This new gas-fired power plant would be able to generate up to 2,409 megawatts of electricity, which would be supplied exclusively to a co-located data center.

If constructed, the power plant and data center could emit over 9.7 million tons of greenhouse gases and over 2,800 tons of health-harming criteria air pollutants per year.

The project, also called the Westline Site, has been controversial since developers held their first community meeting in the Dove Creek area in April, according to reporting by Concho Valley Homepage. Tom Green County commissioners had considered instituting a one-year moratorium on new data center or large power plants but decided earlier this month not to pursue it.

“I’m a huge, huge proponent of private property rights,” Commissioner Shawn Nanny told the data center’s developers in a public speech in April. “But where’s the balance? Where do your rights end and mine begin?”

The TCEQ is currently accepting comments on this pending application, according to the public notice.