Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence society, XAI, built one of the The biggest IA superordinators in the world In Memphis, Tennessee. Since posting online in September, the installation, nicknamed Colossus, has amassed an absurd arsenal of 200,000 NVIDIA graphic processing units to form the Musk chatbot, Grok.
This comes with monstrous energy requests, and the way XAI responds to angry the environmental groups and residents of Boxtown, a black predominance district just five kilometers south of the establishment, Politico reports.
Without obtaining a license, the Musk company rolled in 35 portable gas turbines with enough electricity production between them to supply a small town, spitting harmful pollutants and forming the smog In the air, including nitrogen oxides and formaldehyde. And in just 11 months since Xai began its operations in Memphis, it has become one of the largest nitrogen oxide transmitters producers of SMOG in the surrounding county, according to estimates of the environmental group examined by PoliticoAfflicating an area that already leads the state to emergency visits for asthma.
“I cannot breathe at home, it smells like gas outside,” said a resident of Alexis Humphreys, a Boxtown resident, while holding her asthma unusual during a public hearing on turbines last month, by Politico. “How is it that I cannot breathe at home and that you can all breathe at home?”
“XAI has essentially built a power plant in the south of Memphis without supervision, without a license and without regard for families living in neighboring communities,” said Amanda Garcia, main lawyer for Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), said in a statement last month.
The saga is the latest example of musk companies that flout environmental regulations. In August, his aerospace company SpaceX was accused by state and federal regulators of having illegally poured dangerous pollutants in water in Texas. Tesla, Musk’s automaker, has faced similar accusations to manage the hazardous waste of its facilities in California several times.
XAI Environmental Consultant Shannon Lynn said in a recent webinar that because turbines are temporary, the company does not need federal permits for their dangerous pollutant emissions such as NOx or formaldehyde, by Politico. In August of last year, the health service of the county of Shelby also said that it did not need to issue permits because the Environmental Protection Agency had agreed that it had not the authority concerning gas turbines because they were temporary, Politico reported.
But experts do not see this in this way. Bruce Buckheit, former director of the EPA air application division, said XAI raped the Clean Act with its actions.
“There must be a license in advance,” said Buckheit Politico. “You are not satisfied with this first year for free.”
Garcia, the SELC lawyer, noted that the argument of the County Health Department was also doubtful. The exemption for temporary turbines is intended for small machines such as those used to supply asphalt crushers for road construction, he said.
“XAI’s position is completely suspect – I mean, they are huge,” said John Walke, a former lawyer for the EPA General Councilor Office, to Politico. “The temporary or non -temporary argument is not relevant.”
Faced with significant community pressure, XAI in January said that it would require permits for the permanent installation of its turbines. At the time, the company said that it had only fifteen pieces of the machine on site. But in March, Thermal images taken from the installation By environmental groups have shown that XAI, in reality, had 35 turbines, 33 giving off large quantities of heat.
Although taken in a lie, Xai always seeks permits. In April, Lynn, the environmental representative of XAI, said that only seven of the current turbines will remain in the establishment and will be “modern” with pollution reduction controls. The other 28 turbines, he added, are only “temporary” and will be deleted once XAI will end the construction of two substations to provide the power of the energy network.
The chronology for this, however, is suspect. Only one of the deposits has approval. And at this stage, many in the community are fed up with all the deception.
“The way they have entered the city is like, oh, you think we are unintelligent, you think that the inhabitants of these communities are unable to understand what you are doing and will take this assault against our lying health,” said Jasmine Bernard, resident of Buxtown, 15 years old Politico.
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