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xAI put 59 gas turbines in Mississippi without federal permits, and Black neighborhoods are taking the hit

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Elon Musk's AI company xAI is facing more criticism over its rapid data center expansion near the Tennessee-Mississippi line after Reuters found more gas turbines at the site than the company has publicly acknowledged. The pollution risk could fall most heavily on nearby predominantly Black communities that already face elevated health risks. What happened? Elon Musk's xAI installed 59 natural gas turbines at its Colossus 2 data center project w…

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Fifty-nine boxes of iron burning methane, with fireplace spit out the smoke. Inside there is a turbine. The gas hits the blades, rotates it, produces electricity. The modules work in series, generate energy, discharge emissions into the air. The data center that power, Colossus 2, is in another state, Tennessee, but [...] L'articolo Musk's gas turbines in Mississippi defy the law on clean air. To power the datacenters at the service of the AI co…

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Elon Musk's Artificial Intelligence company has installed more gas turbines without federal permits affecting predominantly black neighborhoods

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thecooldown.com broke the news on Saturday, July 18, 2026.
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