"Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI is facing a second lawsuit alleging it is illegally emitting toxic pollutants from its enormous datacenters, which house its supercomputers and run the chatbot Grok. The new pending suit alleges xAI is violating the Clean Air Act and was filed Friday by the storied civil rights group the NAACP. The group's 40-page notice of intent to sue alleges xAI has been polluting Black communities near its facility in Southaven, Mississippi."
"The pollution comes from more than a dozen portable methane gas generators that xAI set up without permits, the notice alleges. The NAACP's first notice of intent to sue was filed last June and involves similar allegations regarding the company's datacenter in Memphis, Tennessee. In order to file a lawsuit under the Clean Air Act, parties must file an intent to sue notice at least 60 days prior."
"As we shared when xAI began its operation in Tennessee, this illegal pollution only exacerbates complications to frontline communities who continue to bear the brunt of environmental injustice, said Abre' Conner, the NAACP's director of environmental and climate justice. We cannot allow for companies to promise a better future while pumping harmful chemicals into the air we breathe. xAI set up its first datacenter in Memphis in the summer of 2024. It's a massive facility, roughly the size of 13 football fields, and named Colossus."
The NAACP filed a 40-page notice of intent to sue xAI under the Clean Air Act, alleging illegal emissions from datacenters in Southaven, Mississippi. The notice claims more than a dozen portable methane gas generators were set up without permits and are polluting nearby Black communities. A prior NAACP notice targeted xAI's Memphis datacenter; that case did not proceed after xAI obtained permits. xAI began operations in Memphis in summer 2024 with a facility named Colossus, later built Colossus 2 in Southaven, and has started a third datacenter. Southaven residents report noise, pollution, and have circulated a petition seeking accountability.
Read at www.theguardian.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]