Mississippi residents sue Musk’s xAI and SpaceX over data centre ‘nuisance’
Key takeaways
- The AI boom is ‘wreaking havoc’ on communities across the US by subjecting residents to near-constant noise and vibrations, the lawsuit said.
- The lawsuit, made public on Tuesday in federal court in Oxford, Mississippi, claims Musk’s companies negligently failed to curb the disturbance and created a public nuisance through excessive and offensive noise.
- “The artificial intelligence [AI] boom is wreaking havoc on communities across the United States” by subjecting thousands of residents to near-constant noise and vibrations, the lawsuit said.
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The AI boom is ‘wreaking havoc’ on communities across the US by subjecting residents to near-constant noise and vibrations, the lawsuit said.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Mississippi residents have filed a class action lawsuit against Space X and x AI over data centre 'nuisance' [File: AFP]By Reuters Published On 9 Jun 20269 Jun 2026Elon Musk’s x AI and Space X have been sued by Mississippi residents who say a power plant fuelling nearby data centres is blasting “omnipresent and inescapable” noise that has eroded their health and home values.
The lawsuit, made public on Tuesday in federal court in Oxford, Mississippi, claims Musk’s companies negligently failed to curb the disturbance and created a public nuisance through excessive and offensive noise. Three residents filed the case on behalf of a class estimated at more than 10,000 members.