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systems to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, and volatile organic compounds
For those reasons, xAI expects to be granted permits, the submission suggests.However, even before xAI's construction began, Shelby County
was already in violation of the eight-hour ozone standard that protects public health, which means that xAI may need to implement additional
controls.The health department's hearing will be the first time the public will have a chance to push for better accountability
fliers distributed to thousands of Memphis residents said
But xAI will have to play defense, as it has no plans to slow down its data center expansion, with its leading supercomputer facing immense
competition to dominate the AI industry
Musk swore the rapid construction and subsequent work to double the size were "just the beginning," while the xAI website boasts that "no
one has come close to building at this magnitude and speed."The company has already invested $7 billion into the data center, and those
To keep pace, xAI has already earmarked recent funding to "further accelerate our advanced infrastructure," a December blog noted
Further, researchers expect that "within six years, building the leading AI data center may cost $200 billion," TechCrunch reported Friday,
so those costs will likely keep growing, while likely deepening Musk's entrenchment in Memphis and any feared pollution from that into the
foreseeable future.Additionally, products dependent on the data center will keep Musk's facility humming in Memphis
The primary use of xAI's supercomputer today is to fuel Grok, the chatbot running on posts from Musk's social network X
In February, xAI unveiled a preview of its most advanced version of Grok yet, and other "groundbreaking" products are in the pipeline, X's
