Meta sold 80% of its Louisiana Hyperion data center to funds managed by Blue Owl Capital in October 2025, one month after Louisiana regulators approved three new gas-fired power plants for the site, r…
SpaceX and Blue Origin have asked the FCC for permission to deploy orbital data centers, with SpaceX seeking up to one million solar-powered satellites and Blue Origin's Project Sunrise requesting up …
Environmental advocate Erin Brockovich launched an interactive map tracking AI data centers across the U.S., overlaying operational, under-construction, and proposed facilities with community-reported…
The NAACP, alongside Earthjustice and the Southern Environmental Law Centre, has filed a federal lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI, alleging the company is operating 27 gas turbines at its Memphis data …
The U.S. Department of Justice and Pentagon are defending Elon Musk's SpaceX in court, arguing that shutting down unpermitted gas turbines powering the Grok AI data center would threaten national secu…
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…
Meta's Hyperion data centre in Richland Parish, Louisiana, has ballooned from $10bn to more than $50bn in under two years, making it one of the largest AI projects globally. The expansion has brought …
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…
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…
The New York State Legislature passed the Responsible Data Center Development Act on June 5, 2026, imposing a one-year moratorium on data centers of 20 megawatts or larger, while federal lawmakers int…
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…
Big Tech companies are framing opposition to AI data centers as unAmerican criminal conspiracy, as Elon Musk's xAI builds two massive data centers in Memphis, Tennessee, that are pumping toxic polluta…
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 Department of Justice has intervened to defend Elon Musk's xAI against a Clean Air Act lawsuit, arguing that the company's unpermitted gas turbines near Memphis are a matter of national securit…
The Department of Justice intervened Monday in an NAACP lawsuit challenging xAI's operation of 46 unpermitted natural gas turbines at its Colossus 2 data center in Mississippi, arguing that halting th…
A new report commissioned by Earthjustice and Environmental Advocates Mississippi estimates that residential customers of Entergy Mississippi have paid $38 million as of March 2026 for infrastructure …