Musk’s xAI wins permit for datacenter’s makeshift power plant despite backlash
TL;DR
Billionaire’s artificial intelligence company gets approval to run 41 methane gas turbines at its ‘Colossus 2’ in Mississippi Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI won approval on Tuesday to run 41 methane gas turbines at its “Colossus 2” datacenter in northern Mississippi. That’s nearly double the amount it has been operating.
Nauti's Take
xAI gets the green light to run 41 methane turbines — almost double its current setup. So much for the 'AI will save the planet' narrative.
Grok runs on gas, and regulators just said that's fine.
Briefingshow
AI's energy hunger is getting harder to ignore — and regulators are choosing compute over climate.
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