XAI’s submission said that each of the 15 turbines “is equipped with low -dry dry -emission (DLE) / Solonox” dry control technology and other systems to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions, carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds. For these reasons, XAI plans to benefit from permits, suggests submission.
However, even before the start of the construction of XAI, the county of Shelby was already in violation of the eight -hour ozone standard which protects public health, which means that XAI may need to implement additional controls.
The hearing of the Health Department will be the first time that the public will have a chance to put pressure for better responsibility. Apparently hoping to stifle the backlash, the strange leaflets seem to be an attempt to repel by feeling discord.
“These 15 xai turbines?” The leaflets distributed to thousands of Memphis residents said. “They are specially designed to protect the air we all breathe.”
Nothing directly connects XAI to the leaflets. But Xai will have to play the defense because he does not intend to slow down his extension of the data center, with his main supercomputer from immense competition to dominate the AI industry. Musk swore rapid construction and subsequent work to double the size was “only the beginning”, while the Xai website boasts that “nobody came from construction on this magnitude and at this speed”.
The company has already invested $ 7 billion in the data center, and these costs will only grow. To follow the pace, Xai has already reserved recent funding to “further accelerate our advanced infrastructure”, noted a blog of December. In addition, researchers expect “in the six years, the construction of the leader’s data center can cost 200 billion dollars”, reported Techcrunch on Friday, so these costs will probably continue to grow, while deepening Musk’s entrenchment in Memphis and all the dreaded pollution of this in the predictable future.
In addition, products that depend on the data center will keep Musk’s facilities in Memphis. The main use of the XAI supercalculator today is to feed Grok, the chatbot performing on articles by Musk’s Social Network X. In February, XAI unveiled an overview of its most advanced version of Grok to date, and other “revolutionary” products are in the pipeline, said the blog of X.
