Trump administration seeks to halt air pollution lawsuit against xAI
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- US Department of Justice claims NAACP lawsuit threatens ‘national, economic, and energy security’.
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- The lawsuit notes that a “much larger share” of residents are Black compared with the US general population.
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US Department of Justice claims NAACP lawsuit threatens ‘national, economic, and energy security’.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo. An x AI data centre in Memphis, Tennessee, on May 7, 2025 [George Walker IV/AP]By John Power Published On 17 Jun 202617 Jun 2026The United States government has intervened on the side of Elon Musk’s x AI in a legal dispute over the environmental impact of a $20bn data centre in Tennessee, claiming that efforts to block the project threaten national security.
In a court motion filed this week, the Department of Justice requested the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing xAI of illegally operating dozens of natural gas turbines at a Southaven, Mississippi facility constructed to power the Colossus 2 data center in nearby Memphis, Tennessee.