Elon Musk’s Artificial Intelligence firm XAI is facing legal action on air pollution from turbines made from gas used to provide electricity to its memphy computer farm.
Musk’s AI firm Xai received 60-day Information With the intention of sueing the Southern Environment Act Center (SELC) on its “Colossus” AI datastery at Memphis, Tennessi on Tuesday for violation of the Clean Air Act.
Potential lawsuit, on behalf of the oldest civil rights group in the US, the National Association for the Advancement of Cald Peepal, the center on dozens of natural gas turbines, which the firm was established to establish for the convenience rather than a facility. grid connection,
According to SELC, these turbines are functioning without proper air quality permits and emit harmful pollutants including nitrogen oxide and formaldehyde, violating the Clean Air Act.
“In the last one year, XAI has installed and operated other sources of air pollution at at least 35 combustion turbines and colossus site, which ever reads the notice without receiving the required pre -cark or operating air permit.
Formal requests ignored
The notice also claimed that XAI failed to implement “best available control technology”, such as selective catalyst deficiency to limit emissions, require another clean air act for major sources.
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“We have sent formal requests to the local health department on four different occasions, asking them to exercise their rights to enforce the law,” SELC Senior Attorney Patrick Anderson told Newsweek, “Obviously, it has not happened.”
Poor air quality gender, civil rights group calls
The Colossus Datacender is located in a pre -electronic manufacturing feature in the South Memphis, mainly near a black community called Boxtown, where air quality in the area is already lower than other industrial emissions.
“We are ready to combat environmental racism at every turn,” NAACP Said On X.
The Civil Rights Organization wants the cost of prohibitory relief, civil penalty, duty and litigation.
Cointelegraph contacted Xai And NAACP for further comments but did not get immediate response.
Data center demand increase
Musk’s xai is building A second, large feature called Colosus 2 in the mmphis, which requires at least 1 gigawatt power.
The demand for data centers is increasing rapidly, largely governed by the growth of cloud computing and AI, with the US Energy Department Introduced It can be double or triple by 2028.
By 2030, data centers will require $ 6.7 trillion in global investment, which to meet the growing demand, to meet the research firm McKiny Informed In May.
Nick Rook, director of LVRG Research, said, “AI’s record-linking demand is looking for limitations in data centers and power supply as AI companies struggle to reach profitability between rising costs.
Recently Amazon Signed a deal To provide strength to its AI data centers in Pennsylvania via the year 2042 with Talen energy for nuclear power. Also Signal Australia plans to invest more than $ 13 billion in AII and Cloud Infrastructure.
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