Elon Musk Just Can't Stop (Potentially) Violating The Clean Air Act

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Elon Musk's xAI has added a further 19 natural gas turbines to its Southhaven, Mississippi-based AI data center site. This is despite an ongoing lawsuit alleging the company was already operating 27 unpermitted methane gas generators to power the nearby Colossus 2 campus in South Memphis, which it uses to train its Grok AI assistant.

As first reported by Mississippi Today (and since corroborated by Wired), xAI now has a total of 46 portable gas turbines on its Southaven site, which Mississippi Today reports is more than double the amount it had when it arrived in the southern state last year. The 19 new generators were installed between March 25 and May 6, and the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality told Mississippi Today that xAI had notified it of the new additions earlier this week, adding that Musk's company is not obligated to do so.

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