Judge allows NAACP lawsuit over xAI data center pollution to move forward
TechCrunch reports that a federal judge denied xAI's motion to dismiss an NAACP lawsuit. Filed by the Southern Environmental Law Center for the NAACP, the suit says xAI set up and operated 35 or more gas turbines, along with other polluting equipment, at its Colossus data center near Memphis without required air permits, violating the Clean Air Act. xAI argued the turbines were exempt as mobile sources and that the plaintiffs lacked standing. Judge Debra M. Brown ruled the plaintiffs have standing, the turbines are not mobile sources, and the citizen-suit provision is constitutional, so the case proceeds. A similar DOJ motion was denied earlier this month.
