In an Oct. 30 ruling, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi held that the NAACP has statutory standing to bring the lawsuit, which accuses SpaceX of endangering public health by operating dozens of unpermitted gas turbines at its Southaven power plant. The post Mississippi Court Rejects…

The lawsuit alleges that the construction of an xAI data center in Mississippi is in violation of the Clean Air Act.

A federal judge has denied Elon Musk-owned SpaceXAI’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the NAACP over its use of gas turbines to power data centers in Southaven and Memphis. The lawsuit alleges that the artificial intelligence company’s turbines require a state air permit from the Mississippi Environmental…

Civil rights groups like the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) have noted how Elon Musk’s Colossus xAI data centers in Memphis disproportionately pollute the air in minority neighborhoods. A joint lawsuit by SELC, Earthjustice, and the NAACP filed last April argued that Musk and friends didn’t bother to get the…