Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company XAI is facing legal action over air pollution it takes for gas turbines powered by Memphis Computer Farm.
Musk’s AI company Xai wins 60 days Notice Intent to sue the “Colossus” AI Data Center in Memphis, Tennessee on Tuesday for violating the Clean Air Act.
A potential lawsuit representing the United States’ oldest civil rights organization, the National Association for the Promotion of People of Color centers on dozens of natural gas turbines Grid connection.
According to SELC, these turbines operate without proper air quality permits and emit harmful pollutants, including nitrogen oxides and formaldehyde, which violates the Clean Air Act.
“In the past year, XAI has installed and operated at least 35 combustion turbines and other sources of air pollution in Giant premises without obtaining the necessary prefabricated or operating air permit,” the notice reads.
The formal request was ignored
The notice also claims that Xai failed to implement “best available control technologies” such as selective catalytic reductions to limit emissions, another Clean Air Act from the primary source.
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“We have four different occasions to send formal requests to local health departments to use their powers to enforce the law,” said Patrick Anderson, senior attorney for SELC Tell “Obviously, this didn’t happen,” Newsweek added.
Civil Rights Group says poor air quality hoppers say
The Colossus Data Center is located near a former electronics manufacturing plant in southern Memphis, near a black community called Boxtown, where air quality has been weakened by other industrial emissions.
NAACP “We are ready to fight environmental racism at any time.” explain On X.
Civil rights organizations seek injunctive relief, civil penalties, expenses and litigation costs.
Contacted COINTELEGRAPH xai NAACP made further comments but received no immediate response.
Data center demand surges
Musk’s Xai is architecture The second larger facility in Memphis is called the Colossus 2 and requires at least 1 GW of power.
Demand for data centers is increasing rapidly, which is largely dependent on the growth of cloud computing and AI, the U.S. Department of Energy projection By 2028, it can double or triple.
Data centers will require $6.7 trillion in global investment by 2030, research firm McKinsey Report in May.
Nick Ruck, director of LVRG Research, told CoIntelegraph.
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