Environmental lawsuits tighten around Mississippi turbines

Musk’s AI venture is being hammered by a coalition of environmental and civil‑rights groups over a set of natural‑gas turbines that power its data centers. The Southern Environmental Law Center and Earthjustice, on be…

The turbines, which also run the Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 facilities in Memphis, Tennessee, have been spewing smog for more than a year. Residents of the majority‑Black Boxtown neighborhood testified last year about …

The EPA recently clarified that such turbines cannot be classified as temporary non‑road engines, a loophole xAI previously exploited in Shelby County, Tennessee. Shelby’s health department had allowed the turbines to…