CNBC: Elon Musk’s xAI wins permit to build power plant in Mississippi despite pollution concerns. “Elon Musk’s xAI scored a victory in Mississippi, where regulators on Tuesday authorized the artificial intelligence company to build a power plant with 41 natural gas-burning turbines in the town of Southaven to power its nearby data centers.”

NBC News: Elon Musk’s makeshift AI power plant generates sound and fury in Mississippi. “Eddie Gossett awoke one morning last summer to what sounded like an airport runway suddenly opening on his rural Mississippi road. The jet engine roar has been almost nonstop ever since, much to the frustration and insomnia of Gossett and his neighbors. It isn’t a plane — or anything supernatural — […]

Capital B News: Drone Footage Shows Musk’s AI Power Plant Flouting Clean Air Regulations in Black Community. “Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is continuing to fuel its data centers with unpermitted gas turbines, according to a Floodlight visual investigation. Thermal drone footage shows xAI is still burning gas at a facility in Southaven, Miss., despite a recent Environmental […]

The Guardian: Elon Musk’s xAI datacenter generating extra electricity illegally, regulator rules. “A US regulator ruled on Thursday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company had acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power huge datacenters in Tennessee.”

Grid Peak Load: 80 GW Savings - David Sacks on a16z

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The Register: Grounded jet engines take off again as datacenter generators. “AI-driven datacenter energy needs are causing a shortage of gas turbines to power generators, with some operators reportedly turning to old aircraft engines instead.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/25/the-register-grounded-jet-engines-take-off-again-as-datacenter-generators/

Skeptics Funded Big Tech - Casey Handmer and Dwarkesh Patel

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512 Pixels: xAI Gathering Turbines for Second Memphis Site, One Mile Outside of City. “In May, it was reported that xAI was looking to use gas turbines to power its second Memphis location, in part through a partnership named Stateline Power Solutions. Part of the deal was some property just south of the Tennessee/Mississippi state line, which was being used to store the gas turbines that xAI […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/22/512-pixels-xai-gathering-turbines-for-second-memphis-site-one-mile-outside-of-city/