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Elon Musk is accused of using an AI data center.

Elon Musk Is Accused Of Using An Ai Datacenter Powered By Gas To Choke Off A Community With Smog

Elon Musk is accused of using an AI data center

powered by gas to choke off a community with smog.

 

According to CNBC, Elon Musk is in hot water with the people of Memphis, Tennessee because his AI datacenter is allegedly causing air pollution through illegal gas-burning turbines that generate power.

Shelby County, home to Memphis, is already plagued by severe issues with air quality. Concerning the gas turbines that drive Elon Musk‘s company, xAI, which is currently using several Nvidia chips to train AI models, local environmental and health activists have now written to health officials.

“Against this background of untenable levels of smog, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence supercomputer project, xAI, recently sprung up in southwest Memphis,” according to the letter. “This plant requires an enormous amount of electricity.”

Local activists claim in the letter that Musk‘s firm might not have the necessary air licenses to run the gas turbines and want “enforcement action” in the event that the datacenter is discovered to be using these gas combustion machines illegally.

Naturally, CNBC did not receive a response to its request for comment from xAI over the gas turbines, which is, let’s be honest, quite standard for Musk’s responses to critics and the general public.

Gas turbine installation and operation without a permission would be typical for Musk, who has a propensity to crush anyone who stands in his way.

Musk‘s SpaceX, for instance, has ruined and contaminated the delicate wetlands ecosystem surrounding its Texas launch site. Additionally, SpaceX has bullied federal wildlife officials with deceit.

However, Musk is not alone in the tech sector who downplays or dismisses the concerns of the general people.

Returning to AI datacenters, which are extremely costly to operate, Microsoft facilities have absorbed massive amounts of water and electricity from nearby areas, including those in Arizona and Iowa, both of which are experiencing severe droughts.

Apart from Microsoft, large-scale AI datacenters are pushing the boundaries of our electrical grid.

Because the public will bear the financial and health costs of the harm AI datacenters deliver to our communities, the issue with these facilities is that they represent the late capitalist idea of privatizing profits and socializing losses.

 

 

 


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