1 November 2026
Judge rejects xAI bid to dismiss NAACP pollution suit over Memphis turbines
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- xAI, the Elon Musk company now owned by SpaceX, faces a suit over gas turbines powering its Memphis data center without required air permits.
- The NAACP, suing through the Southern Environmental Law Center, says at least 35 turbines were run without the Clean Air Act permits they needed.
- xAI argued the turbines were mobile and exempt from permits, but Judge Debra M. Brown ruled the power plant was not mobile, so the case proceeds.
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