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Rights groups appeal against xAI's use of gas-powered turbines in Memphis, citing health concerns for majority-black communities.
xAI, Elon Musk’s AI venture that is behind the Grok chatbot, has been using gas turbines, a polluting source of energy, at the data center under a temporary permit since it opened last year, a move ...
In an area long plagued by air pollution, permitting irregularities have opponents of what’s predicted to be the world’s ...
Environmental groups in Memphis filed a permit appeal to stop xAI from using gas-burning turbines to power its supercomputer facility in the area.
SZA puts at least some of her focus specifically on Memphis, Tennessee, which is home to about 630,000 people, and also xAI’s ...
As previously reported, the NAACP and Southern Environmental Law Center have been planning to sue xAI over its use of ...
"There is a price for convenience and Black and brown [people] will pay the brunt of it every-time,” SZA warns of AI.
A group of environmental advocates said Wednesday they have appealed a decision by the county’s health department to issue a permit for Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer to operate gas turbines at the ...
The Shelby County, Tennessee, Health Department issued a permit to xAI for 15 methane gas turbines after months of the company operating dozens of the ...
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SELC, NAACP, and Young, Gifted & Green appeal a permit granted to xAI for operating gas-fired turbines, citing potential ...
Today, the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) filed the appeal with the Memphis and Shelby County Air Pollution Control Board on behalf of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored ...