This is why I’ve been encouraging local townships to ban AI data centers preemptively. Towns do not have the resources to fight billionaires or trillionaires like Musk once the data centers are built and destroying the local air. And now the federal government is siding with data centers.
A Witz
NEW: the US government intervened Monday on behalf of xAI in a lawsuit over its gas turbines, claiming that the company needs to run the turbines in order to power Grok, which is "vital" for national security
lots of wild stuff in the filing:
In a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI's polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War.
