Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship datacenters
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is continuing to fuel its datacenters with unpermitted gas turbines, an investigation by the Floodlight newsroom shows. Thermal footage captured by Floodlight via drone shows xAI is still burning gas at a facility in Southaven, Mississippi, despite a recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruling reiterating that doing so requires a state permit in advance.
State regulators in Mississippi maintain that since the turbines are parked on tractor trailers, they don’t require permits. However, the EPA has long maintained that such pollution sources require permits under the Clean Air Act.
Any exemption for these machines “could leave these engines subject to no emission standards at all”, the agency wrote in a January final ruling.
One method of solving this type of problem also involves drones.
Who’s gonna hold them accountable?
Right?! Trump just gutted like the last of the EPA and not a single judge looked up from their roasted stork.
Who knew the AI apocalypse would be due to its massive energy usage.
Wasn’t that part of the plot of the Matrix?
If the government won’t enforce the law, vigilantism is the only alternative. If the turbines are destroyed, they can’t emit.
I hope that when Elon Musk is guillotined, all of his family goes with him.
This does except his ex-daughter, who rightfully disowned him.
Edit: I accidentally misspelled his name, I’ve corrected it. Whoever is in charge of carving his gravestone has the correct spelling now.
What the fuck you psycho.
If Elon dies, the heir raised with his values gets the stuff and perpetuates it.
This is how executive monarchy inherits in the corporate age.
State regulators in Mississippi maintain that since the turbines are parked on tractor trailers, they don’t require permits.
What sort of stupid fucking ruling is that? Do things magically stop polluting when you put them on tractor trailers, or something?
It was probably a law written expecting the use case to be temporary power perhaps for an event or temporary maintenece need. The drafters of that law likely didn’t think someone would blatantly skirt the spirit of the law by simple placing the generators on trailers as a permanent fixture.
In short, the state needs to update its laws to remove this loophole.
Guillotine time? Or are we letting it get worse? I have an executive functioning disorder so genuinely asking because I think we should be chopping of heads.
We need some kind of citizens court it seems like.
I second this motion
Guillotine time? Or are we letting it get worse?
Ultimately that is a question only you can decide on.
How is everything this guy does so dystopian.
this isn’t a mistake, it’s a pattern. He cuts corners with every project.
