NAACP lawsuit accuses Elon Musk’s xAI of polluting Black neighborhoods near Memphis

Suit alleges the billionaire’s AI company is illegally spewing toxic pollutants from its datacenter in the Memphis areaA new lawsuit accuses Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company of illegally spewing toxic pollutants into the Black neighborhoods on the border of Tennessee and Mississippi.The suit, filed on Tuesday in Mississippi federal court, alleges xAI is violating the Clean Air Act due to emissions from its makeshift power plant in Southaven, Mississippi, which powers its data centers in South Memphis. The plaintiff – storied civil rights group the NAACP, represented by environmental groups Southern Environmental Law Center and Earthjustice – says xAI has been polluting the surrounding historically Black communities by using dozens of methane gas generators without permits. The o