{"id":29821,"date":"2025-06-17T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29821"},"modified":"2025-06-17T22:23:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T22:23:05","slug":"elon-musks-ai-company-faces-lawsuit-over-gas-burning-turbines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29821","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s AI Company Faces Lawsuit Over Gas-Burning Turbines"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The company, xAI, has installed several dozen turbines in Memphis without proper permits, the group said, polluting a nearby community.<\/p>\n

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Elon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence company xAI, which runs the Grok chatbot, is facing a legal challenge led by the NAACP over air pollution from its supercomputer facility in Memphis.<\/p>\n

xAI\u2019s South Memphis data center, near predominantly Black neighborhoods, has been operating natural-gas-burning turbines without the proper permits, the NAACP alleged in a notice of an intent to sue filed on Tuesday. Those turbines were sending noxious emissions toward local homes, said Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot afford to normalize this kind of environmental injustice, where billion-dollar companies set up polluting operations in Black neighborhoods without any permits and think they\u2019ll get away with it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In a statement, xAI said that it took its environmental commitments seriously, as well as its responsibility to the local community. \u201cThe temporary power generation units are operating in compliance with all applicable laws,\u201d the company statement said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The data center, part of Mr. Musk\u2019s xAI artificial intelligence business, began running last year in a former manufacturing plant. It houses a supercomputer that Mr. Musk, the world\u2019s richest man, has said would be the world\u2019s largest supercomputer.<\/p>\n

Before beginning operations<\/a>, the company rolled in flatbed trucks loaded with gas-powered turbines to help meet its electricity needs, which rival those of 100,000 homes<\/a>. The Southern Environmental Law Center, a legal nonprofit organization that is representing the NAACP, said aerial images<\/a> from March showed 35 gas turbines at the site, and that the turbines were emitting significant amounts of heat.<\/p>\n

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The company, xAI, has installed several dozen turbines in Memphis without proper permits, the group said, polluting a nearby community.Elon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence company xAI, which runs the Grok chatbot, is facing a legal challenge led by the NAACP over air pollution from its supercomputer facility in Memphis.xAI\u2019s South Memphis data center, near predominantly Black neighborhoods, has been operating natural-gas-burning turbines without the proper permits, the NAACP alleged in a notice of an intent to sue filed on Tuesday. Those turbines were sending noxious emissions toward local homes, said Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP.\u201cWe cannot afford to normalize this kind of environmental injustice, where billion-dollar companies set up polluting operations in Black neighborhoods without any permits and think they\u2019ll get away with it,\u201d he said.In a statement, xAI said that it took its environmental commitments seriously, as well as its responsibility to the local community. \u201cThe temporary power generation units are operating in compliance with all applicable laws,\u201d the company statement said.The data center, part of Mr. Musk\u2019s xAI artificial intelligence business, began running last year in a former manufacturing plant. It houses a supercomputer that Mr. Musk, the world\u2019s richest man, has said would be the world\u2019s largest supercomputer.Before beginning operations, the company rolled in flatbed trucks loaded with gas-powered turbines to help meet its electricity needs, which rival those of 100,000 homes. The Southern Environmental Law Center, a legal nonprofit organization that is representing the NAACP, said aerial images from March showed 35 gas turbines at the site, and that the turbines were emitting significant amounts of heat.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29823,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29824,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29821\/revisions\/29824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}