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The legal battle revolves around the AI company’s operations in southern Memphis.

A federal judge's latest ruling has denied xAI's request to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges its data center campus in Memphis, Tennessee is running turbines without proper permits and violating the Clean Air Act. The decision, from US District Judge Debra M. Brown, allows the lawsuit, which was filed by the NAACP, to move forward.

The organization filed its legal action against xAI in April, accusing the company that's now known as SpaceXSI of using unpermitted methane gas turbines to power data centers in the Memphis area. Despite the ongoing lawsuit that also claimed it's violating the Clear Air Act, Elon Musk's company continued to add more gas turbines to another AI data center site in the nearby Southhaven, Mississippi community. In response, xAI requested to dismiss the NAACP lawsuit and even received supportfrom the Justice Department,...

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