Illon Musk’s intelligent smart company raises controversy in Memphis, Tenisi. This is where it builds a large computer to operate its Xai. Community residents and environmental activists say that since the launch of the supercar last summer, it has become one of the largest air pollutants in the province. But some local officials defended the billionaire, saying it was investing in Memphis.
The first public hearing with the Ministry of Health is scheduled to be held on Friday, when provincial officials will hear in all aspects of the discussion. In the period leading up to the hearing, the secret publications that claim that XAI had low emissions to the population of black neighborhoods historically; At the same time, environmental groups collect data on the amount of pollution that the artificial intelligence company is likely to generate.
The conflict reached his head earlier this month when the Southern Environmental Law Center revealed that Xai had moved at least at least in 35 portable methane turbines Without air permits to help operate the super computers. The group says that this many generators have the ability to operate an entire city and are huge budgets of toxic pollution and cancer. The Law Center has discovered this discovery by taking satellite images of the Xai facility.
Days after the news, the mayor of Memphis Paul Young spoke at a public forum and said he was in contact with Xai and that the company did not use all gas generators, According to WREG news. Young, who has long supported Xai operations in Memphis, indicated that the company has a suspended permit request with the Ministry of Health in Shelby Province to manage 15 generators.
“There is 35, but there are only 15,” said Young. “Others are stored on the site.”
Now, the Center for Southern Environmental Law took new photos of XAI that include thermal imaging. These images show that 33 turbines give large amounts of heat, which means that they were all in use at the time of taking a photo.
Amanda Garcia, a prominent lawyer at the Center for Southern Environment Law, said: “It is a horrific thing that Xai will manage more than 30 methane gas turbines without any permits or any general supervision,” said Amanda Garcia, a prominent lawyer at the Southern Environment Center Center. Xai failed to reveal that it runs dozens of these contaminated turbines in its south Memphis The Data Center has left the darkness in the dark about what is pumped into the air they breathe every day. “
Xai, Young and Health Health DePartment did not respond.
Musk calls the Xai “Colossus”. It is charged with providing an account capacity Xai’s chatbot Grok. The size of the building, which includes Colossus, is 13 Field Field, and Musk said Plan to double that.
Last month, it is He bought another property In Memphis to expand the Xai infrastructure there. The new feature is 1 square meter.
Artificial intelligence requires a huge amount of energy to make accounts and provide quick responses to user information. In the United States, the majority of this electricity comes from burning fossil fuels. A few miles away from Xai there are many residential neighborhoods that have long dealt with industrial pollution. This region is historically black and has higher rates of cancer and asthma and a decrease in average life expectancy from other parts of the city.
It was the members of this society Explicit in their opposition to Xai He called for more supervision and environmental regulations on the company. During the past week, thousands of residents said here that they had received leaflets in the mail, which reduced the pollution emitted from Xai gas turbines.
The publications come from an unknown group called “Facts on Fantasy” and have a list of lead points that claim that the turbines are “cleaner technique” and “minor” because they use gas, instead of diesel or coal. The publications say that the generators are low -emotions and are organized by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Ministry of Health in Shelby Province. Both these two sides said they had not issued permits for gas generators in Xai.
“These turbines 15 xi?” The pilot reads. “It is specially designed to protect the air that we all breathe.”
Justin Pearson, representative of Tennessee, who is from this part of Memphis, said in Instagram post The publications “lie to us about methane pollution in Xai” and “We know methane gas leads to more asthma attacks, leading to more respiratory disease.”
He called for the knowledge of who sent the publications and encouraged all members of society to attend the plenary session on Friday. “We have to fight the false lies and information,” he wrote. “Clean air is a human right and [Shelby county health department] On the duty to protect the air we breathe. “
