"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.
Natural gas generators are sometimes converted aviation high bypass turbofan engines. By running many of them, such a site creates a lot of local noise, chemical vapor, and particulate pollution.
Related:
DOJ claims xAI's gas turbines are a matter of 'national and energy security'
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48565429
Unpaywalled article: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/elon...
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.
non-paywall: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pollution-from-musk-s-unpe...
Natural gas generators are sometimes converted aviation high bypass turbofan engines. By running many of them, such a site creates a lot of local noise, chemical vapor, and particulate pollution.