County regulators yesterday was given XA allow to operate 15 natural gas turbines in the data center outside Memphis, despite the threat of a suit.
AI AI company operating 35 generators without permission, says Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC). Overall, they can make 421 megawatts of electricity. The legal organization says that Sued it xai For breaching clean air to work for the NAACP.
The company Just raised $ 10 billiondivided between debt and justification.
the PERMIT Shelby County Health Department Issued that Xai can operate 15 Solar SMT-130 generators with emission controls, which can be up to 247 megawatts. The company has been operated by eight of the same model without permission, according to the Selc, even the group increases that the existing operations have appropriate control of pollution.
Under the conditions of the permit, Xai is still allowed to releases a large significant pollution on a rolling 12-month basis, including 87 tons of smog-forming noX94 tons of carbon monoxide, 85 tons of organic compounds, 73 tons of particulate pollution, including 9.8 tons of formaldehyde, a known carcinogehen. The company is required to keep our emissions records.
Before the permit was issued, a Memphis community group says it has $ 250,000 in funds pay for an independent quality of air wind study.
The city of Memphis made its own quality of air test in JuneAlthough the SELC raises a lot of concerns about how trials are made.
The test contractor did not measure ozone level, the Selc said, and the tests were made in the days when the wind blows in Xia. The contractor also placed test equipment directly against or in close proximity of buildings, which can interfere with results.
In the past, the health department MANILA that it does not authorize the “mobile” turbines of turbines when they operate in less than 364 days, that EPA is the relevant regulator. The SELC says that the law translation is “incorrect” and the letter reasonable withdraw is “without legal analysis.”
