Musk is poisoning Memphis Tennessee

[Jaguar93]

fukking Devil

 

[TEH]

He is basically Arcade from the X-Men with Lex Luthor money

Or Arnim Zola

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Elon Musk’s xAI powering its facility in Memphis with ‘illegal’ generators

Advocacy group says the firm has doubled the number of methane gas burning turbines it’s using without permits

www.theguardian.com

Musk is doing this with no regard for the predominantly Black community next to his shytty facility. This is textbook environmental racism.

Yup


This is what I was talking about with this AI and the infrastructure not being there for AGI.

Like, what do people think they are going to use to power these things? Where do people think they are going to put them?

 

[Lord_nikon]

 

[NoCones]

If it's a bunch of white people working there, why the fukk are they safe?

Why aren't they scared to come to work?

All the killers in Memphis but this pink bytch can just get away with poisoning a whole hood without any of his workers ending up in a body bag?

If black folks actually work there then I don't agree with my strategy, but if you got a bunch of pink mfers freely poisoning a whole hood, and they remain untouched, then what the fukk does that say about Memphis? No disrespect to them and I love the culture in Memphis, but God damn, can y'all nikkas catch some bodies that actually makes lives better?

Anyone?

what kind of corny ass shyt this this?

 

[BlazedWun]

been saying this over and over. only way posters are gonna stop linking to the boer is through banning X links

but then what would TLR have to post about?

People really need to wake up about him. This mutherfukker literally has american blood on his hands, He single-handedly made this country a more hostile, toxic, racist and dangerous place.

 

[King_Sage]

 

[Chrishaune]

Can't trust the government to step in for the good of the people. All they care about is the money they are getting

 

[Recca Gatsby]

They gutted the very organizations designed to prevent this

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

 

[pickles]

This story should be getting way more attention.

 

[bnew]

Elon Musk Obtains Permit to Spew Pollution

In the city that built the blues, Elon Musk's xAI data center has been given permission to keep polluting the air with methane gas.

futurism.com

Elon Musk Obtains Permit to Spew Pollution​

"I am horrified but not surprised."​

/ Artificial Intelligence/ Ai Pollution/ Elon Musk/ Grok

Image by Allison Robbert / AFP via Getty / Futurism

In the city that built the blues, Elon Musk's xAI data center has been given permission to keep polluting the air with fumes from burning methane gas — which it had already been doing so without authorization for a year.

As Wired reports, Memphis' local health department has granted an air permit for the xAI data center, allowing it to keep operating the methane gas turbines that power Musk's Grok chatbot and Colossus, the gigantic supercomputer at its heart.

In Boxtown, the historically Black neighborhood in South Memphis where xAI's data center is situated, Musk's unfettered pollution has ripped the band-aid off a wound that had barely begun to heal. As Capital B News reported earlier this year, the neighborhood was once home to the Allen Fossil Plant, an electrical facility that left pits of noxious coal ash and a lengthy legacy of environmental racism behind when it was forced to close in 2018.

In the year since the data center opened and Colossus went online, the smog from Musk's gas turbines has been veritably choking out local residents in a district already struggling with heightened asthma rates due to its proximity to industrial pollution.

"I can't breathe at home," Boxtown resident Alexis Humphreys told Politico earlier this year. "It smells like gas outside."

Given that context, local activists are furious that xAI was granted a permit at all — especially because it appears to violate the Clean Air Act, a landmark federal law that regulates the kind of emissions that the xAI plant has been leaching out for a year now.

"I am horrified but not surprised," conceded KeShaun Pearson, the head of the Memphis Community Against Pollution, in an interview with Wired after the permit decision came down. "The flagrant violation of the Clean Air Act and the disregard for our human right to clean air, by xAI's burning of illegal methane turbines, has been stamped as permissible."

"Over 1,000 people submitted public comments demanding protection," he continued, "and got passed over for a billionaire’s ambitious experiment."

The new permit, as Wired notes, grants xAI the right to operate 15 turbines. According to aerial footage from the Southern Environmental Law Center, which is planning to sue the Musk-owned AI company for violating the Clean Air Act, there are as many as 35 on the site of the xAI data center — and with its track record of flagrant law-breaking, there's a good chance all will be turned on.

Between the SELC's suit and the permit's year-long expiration date, there is time for Musk's massively-polluting data center to be reined in — but until that happens, Memphians will keep being choked out in their own homes thanks to their government's decision to put one billionaire's profit margins over its own people.