A local health The Memphis department is awarded Xai by Elon Musk The data center is a air permit to proceed to operate the turbines in the gas groke chatbot power. The permit will come between widespread community opposition and a stimulating case declaring that the company has violated the clean air act.
The Shelby County Health Department releases a air permit For Xai Projectay Wednesday, after receiving hundreds of public comments. The news is First reported by the daily Memphian.
In June, the Memphis Chamber of Commerce Office has partnered Xai chooses a Memphis site to build its new supercomputer. Company’s website boasted that it can build supercomputer, colossus, in only 122 days. That speed is due to the mobile gas turbines with easy company Started to install On campus, the place of a facility in a former commit.
Colossus allows Xai to easily get rivals Openi, Google, and anthropic to build artificial intelligence. It is built with 100,000 NVIVIA H100 GPU, which makes this largest supercomputer in the world.
Memphis campus in Xai is located in a more black community known as Boxtown with the history of industry-threatened projects that caused pollution. Gas turbines such as XIs used in Memphis can be a significant source of harmful emissions, such as nitrogen oxrogides, which Create smog. Memphis na Some of the highest amounts of young aspma in Tennessee. Since Xai began to run the turbines, residents often met and rallied against the project.
“I was afraid but I was not surprised,” says Keshaun Parson, the Memphis Community leader against pollution. “The burning violation of the clean air Act and ignoring our human rights to clean the air in Xai. More than 1,000 people carry out public ambitions for an ambitious experiment.”
Under clean air Act, “principal” sources of emissions – such as a cluster of gas turbines – need a permit, known as a restraint of significant deterioration (PSD) PERMIT. However, officials of Health Officers in Shelby County Health told Local reporters in August that it is not necessary for Xai since the turbines are not designed to be permanent. Between mounting local opposition, Xai finally applied for a Department of Health Department in Shelby County in January, months after it began running into turbines.
In the last month, the NAACP and the center of environmental underground nature (SELC) Office has partnered that they intended to have Xai because of the reported violation of the clean air act.
“The decision to give xai is a gas permit its gas turbines to fly to the fate of the fuel Amanda Garcia in a press release of the South Memphis, to make a separate air violations with already existed air with already existed agreed safes. “
