Judge Debra M. Brown denied xAI's motion on October 30th, letting the NAACP pursue its unpermitted-turbine claims against Elon Musk's SpaceX-owned AI company.
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The ruling keeps alive a citizen-suit path that could force permits, pollution controls, penalties or operating limits on the temporary gas plants AI companies use when grid power cannot keep up with GPU buildouts.
Elon Musk (@elonmusk) founded xAI in 2023. A federal judge has now allowed a lawsuit over permits for the gas plant supplying its Colossus 2 data center to proceed.…
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