Musk’s AI company accused of air pollution in US
According to CNBC, the Southern Environmental Law Centre – the largest environmental non-profit organisation in the south-eastern United States – accused Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI of air pollution due to the abnormal use of gas turbines to generate electricity in Tennessee, RIA Novosti reports
According to the environmental organisation, xAI ‘has installed at least 18 gas combustion turbines over the last several months’ in the city of Memphis in Shelby County, Tennessee. It is noted that the company uses them to power its data centre.
The Southern Environmental Law Centre states that the xAI centre ‘consumes a huge amount of electricity’. Gas combustion turbines installed on the territory of the xAI data centre emit extremely harmful ‘nitrogen oxides’ into the atmosphere, thereby exacerbating the smog problem in the area.
