xAI to buy $2.8B in gas turbines despite NAACP lawsuit over polluting data center generators
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Elon Musk's xAI is facing a lawsuit from the NAACP over the use of polluting natural gas generators at its data center near Memphis, Tennessee. Despite the legal action, xAI plans to purchase an additional $2.8 billion worth of turbines — including $2 billion specifically for mobile gas turbines — over the next three years for its AI infrastructure, as disclosed in SpaceX's IPO filing.
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Now it wants to buy even more of them.
One deal, worth $2 billion, is specifically for 'mobile gas turbines,' the kind that it's currently being sued over.
The NAACP filed a lawsuit against
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