Musk's Colossus 2 data center installed 59 gas turbines without permission
tastyface
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July 14, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)
tastyface
"Thousands of tons of pollutants reportedly impact Black communities in Mississippi already suffering from elevated lung disease rates" Bonus, DOJ is trying to sweep this lawsuit under the rug: https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/xai-memphis-trump-d... "In the memo accompanying its motion, the DOJ characterizes the NAACP’s lawsuit as a national security threat—Colossus powers Grok, an AI model that the Department of Defense uses in military operations—and contends that enforcing the Clean Air Act against xAI is not 'consistent with federal policy and the public interest.'" This is for unpermitted construction polluting nearby neighborhoods.
ChrisArchitect
Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/pollution-musks-unper... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48909139 )
GuestFAUniverse
Billionaires at work: Ignore rules made by majority. Set rules for majority.
Havoc
That’s why DOGE was so useful. Destroying any institutional capacity to prevent this sort of thing