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In a lawsuit filed last week, the NAACP says Elon Musk’s xAI is running unpermitted gas turbines to run a massive data center near Memphis. Credit: Washington Post/Getty Images
The NAACP sued Musk’s company, xAI, last week, alleging it is operating dozens of unpermitted, gas-powered turbines to supply electricity to Colossus 2 — a new, supersized artificial intelligence data center near Memphis, a majority-Black city. The suit contends the turbines will spew hundreds of tons of pollution into the air over a residential area, worsening smog and exposing people to cancer-causing chemicals.
Abre’ Conner, NAACP’s director of environmental and climate justice, said in a statement that Musk’s company is “following a shameful, familiar pattern: asking Black and frontline communities to bear the toxic brunt of ‘innovation.’” Two influential nonprofits — the Southern Environmental Law Center and Earth Justice — are assisting the civil rights organization in the lawsuit.
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