Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI may have acted illegally when using methane gas turbines to generate power at its sprawling data center in Memphis, Tennessee, following a recent rule change by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).xAI, whose technology powers X’s chatbot Grok, began work on its Colossus 1 data center in the summer of 2024 at a reported cost of roughly $4 billion. The facility, which has been earmarked to one day house over a million GPUs, has drawn criticism from local residents and environmental campaigners over air pollution.Pollutants emitted by these types of turbines, such as nitrogen oxides (NOx), benzene, and formaldehyde, have been linked to negative health outcomes and are associated with respiratory conditions like asthma, cardiovascular disease, neurological disorders such as dementia, and a higher risk of cancer. Do you think that this is a targeted allegations against X?
