Local health The Department at Memphis granted Elon Musk a XAI permission to continue running gas turbines that drive Chatbot Grok Grok. Permission for universal community oppositions and an upcoming lawsuit, which alleges that the company violated the law on the pristine air.
The Department of Health of SHELBA Published his own air permit On Wednesday, the XAI project, after receiving hundreds of public comments. The message sounded First reported by Daily Memphian.
In June, the Memphis Chamber of Commerce announced That Xai chose the site in Memphis to build a modern supercomputer. Company website Glory That he was able to build a supercomputer, Colossus, in just 122 days. This speed was partly caused by mobile turbines He started installing In the campus, the place of a former production plant.
Colossus allowed XAI to quickly catch up in the rivals of Opeli, Google and Anthropic in building the latest artificial intelligence. It was built using 100,000 NVIDIA H100 GPU, which makes it the world’s largest supercompter.
The Xai Memphis campus is located mainly in the black community known as Boxtown, which historically burdened industrial projects that cause pollution. Gas turbines, such as those used by XAI in Memphis, can be a significant source of harmful emissions, such as nitrogen oxides, which Create smog. Memphis already Some of the highest rates of children’s asthma in Tennessee. Since Xai began to lead his turbines, the residents have repeatedly met and fought against the project.
“I am terrified but not surprised,” says Keshaun Pearson, leader of the Memphis community against pollution. “A gross violation of the clean air act and disregarding our human right to clean air, by burning illegal methane turbines by XAI, was stamped by the Department of Health of Shelba Flachers. Over 1,000 people submitted public comments demanding protection and was given with an ambitious billionaire experiment.”
Pursuant to the Tidy Air Act, “main” emission sources – like a gas turbine cluster – slightly permits, known as a significant deterioration (PSD) permit. However, officials of the Helby Ferris Department he said Local reporters in August that it was not necessary for XAI, because its turbines were not designed as lasting. In connection with the assembly of the local opposition, Xai finally applied for a permit with the Helby Health Department of Shelby in January, a few months after he first began to lead the turbines.
Last month NACP and Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) announced that they intended to sue Xai for violating the pristine air act.
“The decision XAI to install and handle dozens of contaminating gas turbines without any permits or public supervision is a clear violation of the clean air act,” said senior prosecutor Selc Patrick Anderson in a press release. “Over the past year, these turbines have pumped out of pollution that threaten the health of Memphis families. This notification paves the way to a lawsuit that may attract Xai responsible for the illegal refusal to obtain permits for gas turbines.”