‘How come I can’t breathe?': Musk’s data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
#Xai
Google, Scale AI’s top client, is ending its partnership after Meta acquired a 49% stake in Scale. Microsoft, OpenAI, and xAI are also stepping back, prompting major shifts in AI data-labeling partnerships. #Google #ScaleAI #Meta #AI #DataLabeling #Microsoft #OpenAI #xAI #TechNews
"Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is belching smog-forming pollution into an area of South Memphis that already leads the state in emergency department visits for asthma.
None of the 35 methane gas turbines that help power xAI’s massive supercomputer is equipped with pollution controls typically required by federal rules.
The company has no Clean Air Act permits.
In just 11 months since the company arrived in Memphis, xAI has become one of Shelby County’s largest emitters of smog-producing nitrogen oxides, according to calculations by environmental groups whose data has been reviewed by POLITICO’s E&E News. The plant is in an area whose air is already considered unhealthy due to smog.
The turbines spew nitrogen oxides, also known as NOx, at an estimated rate of 1,200 to 2,000 tons a year — far more than the gas-fired power plant across the street or the oil refinery down the road."
#USA Tennessee #Memphis #AirPollution #AI #GenerativeAI #xAI #Musk
#Meta, #Google, #OpenAI, #xAI et al have unilaterally declared #copyright no longer a thing.
Here's what you can do about it:
- Pirate everything
- Release all the data
- Directly pay your favourite creatives
Elon Musk Back to Hailing Trump, Just Days After Accusing Him of Being in Epstein Files
#DOGE #elonmusk #nazi #elon #musk #hitlergruß #nazis #us #coup #usa #junta #kakistocracy #trump #xAI #ai #federal #ice #protestors #grok #TSLA #Tesla #tech #technology #usaid #doge #uspol #fascist #fascism #protest #losangeles #la #california #nationalguard #gop #gqp #republican #republicans #congress #senate #maga
COLABORACIÓN ENTRE #TELEGRAM Y #TWITTER: ¿ADIÓS A LA #PRIVACIDAD? - #LaRedDeMario
😬 ¡Ojalá que se pueda desactivar por completo! 😬
Elon Musk is choking a black community with air pollution to run a racist chatbot on a right-wing social media site. And the next data centre planned to run "Grok" will nearly double the number of fossil fuelled turbines.
Far from 'saving' the climate, it really looks like fossil-fuelled data centres are running climate-denying racist text generators for right-wing billionaires.
I found a new dataset that lays it all out pretty nicely: as bad as the generative AI data centre panic-build is, Musk is the worst of a bad bunch by a good margin.
Enjoy:
Links ->
The dataset: https://epoch.ai/data/ai-supercomputers?view=table#data-insights
Southern Environment Law Centre update: https://www.selc.org/news/resistance-against-elon-musks-xai-facility-in-south-memphis-gets-stronger/
Thermal images of the gas turbines: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/24/elon-musk-xai-memphis
More Perfect Union short documentary on the town Musk is poisoning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT2JeDCyw
Musk's chatbot is racist: https://www.reuters.com/business/musks-xai-updates-grok-chatbot-after-white-genocide-comments-2025-05-17/
Once the site is grid connected, it'll raise power prices and increase grid-scale fossil fuel use: https://floodlightnews.org/power-for-data-centers-could-come-at-staggering-cost-to-consumers/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/business/energy-environment/data-centers-utilities-electricity-bills.html
A nice case study of a *defeated* 3.5 gigawatt data centre fossil fuel power station combo https://www.selc.org/news/a-rural-virginia-county-is-a-case-study-in-community/
#ElonMusk #XAI #Grok #AI #Datacentres #Racist #Chatbot #epochai #data #Fossilfuels #ClimateChange #climate #Fossilgas #Methane
🧠 Can your AI explain itself?
Black-box models are failing 94% of the time in healthcare alone. The rise of Explainable AI (XAI) is not just necessary—it’s inevitable.
Discover real-world tools, Python code, SHAP visualizations & EU-compliance checklists inside this feature-packed guide.
👇 Read the full article:
https://medium.com/@rogt.x1997/breaking-open-the-black-box-why-explainable-ai-is-no-longer-optional-edc42ef145c7
#ExplainableAI #GenAI #AICompliance #XAI
https://medium.com/@rogt.x1997/breaking-open-the-black-box-why-explainable-ai-is-no-longer-optional-edc42ef145c7
#DiaryOfRoundSparrow #RoundSparrowAsserts
Saturday June 7, 2025
We All Know. We have all Seen. Dramatic #FBI raids. Donald Trump could issue a #FBIraid on one of #ElonMusk businesses, #SpaceX or #Tesla or his #xAI businesses and then return what they take. #ElonMuskPunchBag is a #MediaEvent
Für den Supercomputer #Colossus betreibt #Musk in #Memphis, #Tennessie, illegal ❗ 35 Gasturbinen, die die Luft der Anwohner verpesten.
Colossus wird benötigt für #xAI, die #Grok am laufen halten. #AI #KI #X
Die dunkle Seite von KI: Musk-...
Telegram partners with Elon Musk's xAI to integrate the AI assistant Grok into its messaging service. 🤝
Pavel Durov announced the deal will reach over a billion users, providing Telegram with $300 million and 50% of xAI subscription revenue. 💰
Will Musk's xAI be able to scan all the chats in Telegram? What happens to our privacy?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxvr3n7wlxo
#Telegram #AI #xAI #Grok #ElonMusk #ArtificialIntelligence #TechNews #Privacy #Technology #Cybersecurity
X verbietet jetzt offiziell, Plattforminhalte für das Training großer KI-Sprachmodelle zu nutzen – nach Übernahme durch Elon Musks xAI. Zuvor war eingeschränktes KI-Training erlaubt. Reddit & The Browser Company ziehen ähnliche Grenzen. #KI #Datenschutz #xAI
X verbietet jetzt offiziell, Plattforminhalte für das Training großer KI-Sprachmodelle zu nutzen – nach Übernahme durch Elon Musks xAI. Zuvor war eingeschränktes KI-Training erlaubt. Reddit & The Browser Company ziehen ähnliche Grenzen. #KI #Datenschutz #xAI
xAI interdit aux autres IA de se servir de X, pendant que Reddit poursuit Anthropic en justice http://dlvr.it/TLBdwt #xAI #IA
AI's Air Pollution Problem: Data Center Energy Use Adds to Deadly Emissions
Published Dec 12, 2024
"The energy required for artificial intelligence causes air pollution from fossil-fueled power sources, a new study has found, and the authors warn that as AI grows so will the health burden from air pollution unless data centers use cleaner power.
"Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, and CalTech project that growing demand for power for the AI boom could result in as many as 1,300 premature deaths and billions of dollars in health costs in the U.S. each year by the end of this decade.
"Despite growth in cleaner energy and progress in pollution controls, many parts of the country still rely heavily on coal and natural gas to generate electricity, and pollutants from power plants such as fine particulate matter and nitrogen oxides contribute to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.
"The rapid growth of data centers to drive AI will be a major source of demand for electricity and thus a major contributor to air pollution, the researchers said.
" 'These are real impacts that we'll be seeing if we're not taking any actions right now,' UC Riverside associate professor of electrical and computer engineering Shaolei Ren told Newsweek. 'And those are preventable to a large extent.'
"Ren and his co-authors drew on industry data about energy consumption by data centers and used a tool developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to calculate the air pollution and health impacts from the electricity use [that was before the #Trumpian era].
"However, many data centers also rely on backup generators separate from the electric grid. For example, when Elon #Musk launched his #xAI data center in Memphis, Tennessee, in July, it relied on a fleet of mobile generators, raising #pollution concerns among residents there."
#AIColonialism #NoNukesForAI #AISucks #WaterIsLife #Enshittification #AIPollution #NoisePollution
#DataCenters
BioReason: Incentivizing Multimodal Biological Reasoning within a #DNA-#LLM Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23579
🧬 it integrates DNA foundation models (Evo2) with LLMs connecting different biological knowledge like a scientist
📲 Telegram eta kapitalismo digitalaren arteko besarkada goxoa?
Dabid Martinezek @etzipm -n aztertu du Telegram eta Elon Musk-en xAI enpresaren arteko akordioa.
💰 Grok AI txatbota plataforma integratuko da, eta horrek 300M$-ko inbertsioa eta diru-sarreren %50 Telegramentzat ekarriko ditu.
#AI #Telegram #KapitalismoDigitala #Teknopolitika #Grok #xAI #DatuenBurujabetza
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