US EditionElon Musk brought ‘the world’s biggest supercomputer’ to Memphis. Residents say they’re choking on its pollution
SOUTH MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, MAY 20 – xAI's methane turbines emit 1,200 to 2,000 tons of nitrogen oxides annually, worsening air quality in a community with asthma rates highest in Tennessee, officials said.
- Elon Musk's company xAI opened a vast AI supercomputer facility in southwest Memphis in summer 2024 near the Boxtown community.
- The facility's arrival followed local promotion as a job source despite lack of prior air permits and community notification, fueling resident anger.
- XAI installed dozens of gas-powered turbines drawing 150 megawatts while located among 17 other polluting plants, raising pollution and health concerns in this disadvantaged area.
- ProPublica found cancer risk in southwest Memphis is over 4 times the EPA limit, while ozone pollution linked to asthma and death intensifies anxieties of residents like Sarah Gladney.
- Despite Mayor Young’s support and planned investments in training and pollution reduction, community advocates vow to continue fighting for clean air amid expanding xAI operations.
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Last summer, Elon Musk quietly transformed a portion of a South Memphis, Tennessee, community established by a group of formerly enslaved people in 1863 into what the world’s wealthiest man called “Colossus” — the planet’s most powerful supercomputer. The artificial intelligence venture turned an old manufacturing plant into a powerful 550-acre supercomputer designed to train Grok, which is his AI company’s “anti-woke” chatbot that deliberately…
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Comment: Musk AI project ducks pollution permits with EPA help
HeraldNet.com HeraldNet.com - Everett and Snohomish County news from The Daily Herald in Everett, Washington The Memphis project, using methane turbines for electricity, is operating without permits. Comment: Musk AI project ducks pollution permits with EPA help Wire Service
Elon Musk’s Memphis AI facility under fire for polluting Black neighborhood
MEMPHIS, Tenn.–In Boxtown — a historic Black community in South Memphis — residents are being forced to inhale a future they never asked for. In the shadow of a massive supercomputer project, Elon Musk’s company xAI quietly installed 35 methane-burning gas turbines in Boxtown — a neighborhood already burdened by a long, painful history of […] The post Elon Musk’s Memphis AI facility under fire for polluting Black neighborhood appeared first on T…
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