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.

    • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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      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.

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        12 hours ago

        are they, ELON doesnt seem to give attention to any of his Breed fetish children, only one time as a human shield.and it will be 14+ children trying to fight the same inheritence since they are all the same or very close the same age.

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        If he’s guillotined why not just disinherit his children at that stage?