Elon Musk’s xAI sued over pollution concerns by America’s largest Civil rights body NAACP, termed ‘Reckless, unlawful actions that …’

One of America’s oldest and largest civil rights organization National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s AI venture xAI and its subsidiary MZX Tech, accusing them of illegally operating methane gas turbines to power a major data centre in South Memphis. The civil rights organisation is asking a federal court in Mississippi to rule that the company violated the Clean Air Act, halt the use of the turbines and impose financial penalties.

At the centre of the complaint is xAI’s Colossus 2 data centre, part of the company’s growing infrastructure to train its AI assistant, Grok. According to the lawsuit, xAI has been running 27 gas turbines at the site without securing the required air permits.