Elon Musk is choking a black community with air pollution to run a racist chatbot on a right-wing social media site. And the next data centre planned to run "Grok" will nearly double the number of fossil fuelled turbines.
Far from 'saving' the climate, it really looks like fossil-fuelled data centres are running climate-denying racist text generators for right-wing billionaires.
I found a new dataset that lays it all out pretty nicely: as bad as the generative AI data centre panic-build is, Musk is the worst of a bad bunch by a good margin.
Enjoy:
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The dataset: https://epoch.ai/data/ai-supercomputers?view=table#data-insights
Southern Environment Law Centre update: https://www.selc.org/news/resistance-against-elon-musks-xai-facility-in-south-memphis-gets-stronger/
Thermal images of the gas turbines: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/24/elon-musk-xai-memphis
More Perfect Union short documentary on the town Musk is poisoning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT2JeDCyw
Musk's chatbot is racist: https://www.reuters.com/business/musks-xai-updates-grok-chatbot-after-white-genocide-comments-2025-05-17/
Once the site is grid connected, it'll raise power prices and increase grid-scale fossil fuel use: https://floodlightnews.org/power-for-data-centers-could-come-at-staggering-cost-to-consumers/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/business/energy-environment/data-centers-utilities-electricity-bills.html
A nice case study of a defeated 3.5 gigawatt data centre fossil fuel power station combo https://www.selc.org/news/a-rural-virginia-county-is-a-case-study-in-community/
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