Anthropic PBC is reportedly in early-stage discussions with Meta Platforms Inc. to lease data center capacity in a deal that could be worth $10 billion over two years, according to The New York Times.…
SpaceXAI, the AI division of SpaceX, operates 59 unpermitted natural gas turbines near Memphis, Tennessee, disproportionately impacting Black communities, according to a Reuters report. The turbines p…
Elon Musk's xAI has deployed 59 natural gas turbines without required Clean Air Act permits to power its Colossus 2 supercomputer and data center project near Memphis, Tennessee, triggering lawsuits f…
Elon Musk's xAI has installed 59 natural gas turbines in Southaven, Mississippi, to power its Colossus 2 data center in Memphis, Tennessee, which is on track to become one of the first gigawatt-scale …
Elon Musk's xAI has been operating dozens of unpermitted methane gas turbines at its Colossus 2 data center in Southaven, Mississippi, releasing over 1,700 tons of nitrogen oxides and other pollutants…
AI data centers are emitting illegal levels of air pollution in communities with little public oversight, as exemplified by xAI's Colossus 2 facility in Mississippi, which installed 33 gas turbines wi…
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, a new AI model trained alongside coding tool Cursor, aimed at coding and technical tasks. Cursor co-founder Michael Truell called it an "Opus-class model" that is fast and …
Elon Musk's xAI data center in Memphis is emitting illegal levels of pollutants linked to health issues in Black neighborhoods, prompting a civil rights lawsuit. Musk's SpaceX is now offering discount…
The Trump Justice Department has moved to dismiss a Clean Air Act lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI over unpermitted gas turbines powering its data center, citing national security concerns. The NAACP l…
Elon Musk confirmed Grok 4.5 entered private beta at SpaceX and Tesla on June 28, 2026, featuring 1.5 trillion parameters and trained from scratch on xAI's Colossus 2 cluster. The model leverages uniq…
The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) is challenging xAI's data center buildout in Memphis, Tennessee, over clean air violations. Senior attorney Amanda Garcia discusses the legal fight against…
The Trump administration's chief digital and artificial intelligence officer argued that shutting down xAI's Colossus 2 data center in Memphis would threaten national security, as the facility powers …
Open source AI startup Reflection AI will pay SpaceX $150 million per month through 2029 for access to Nvidia GB300 chips at SpaceX's Colossus 2 data center, in a deal worth up to $6.3 billion. The ag…
At least 57 off-grid natural gas plants with 73 gigawatts of combined capacity are being built to power AI data centers across the US, often bypassing environmental review. xAI's Colossus facilities i…
The Department of Justice intervened in a Clean Air Act lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI, arguing that the company's Grok chatbot is vital to national security and should not be hindered by pollution p…
The Trump administration's Department of Justice is intervening to protect Elon Musk's xAI from a lawsuit over pollution from its Memphis data center, arguing that shutting down the facility threatens…
The US Justice Department filed to intervene in a Clean Air Act lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI on June 16, arguing that unpermitted natural gas turbines at its Mississippi data center are essential f…
The US Department of Justice moved to dismiss a Clean Air Act lawsuit by the NAACP against Elon Musk's xAI, arguing that enforcing pollution regulations at its Mississippi data center could threaten n…
The U.S. Department of Justice intervened in an NAACP lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI, arguing that shutting down unpermitted gas turbines powering its Colossus 2 data center would threaten national s…
The US Justice Department invoked national security to defend xAI's unpermitted gas turbines, arguing that shutting them down would harm AI innovation supporting military operations. The NAACP sued ov…