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Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup attained an official permit to power its Memphis supercomputer facility using natural gas-burning turbines.
The head of infrastructure at Elon Musk's xAI has departed. Uday Ruddarraju spent a little over a year at the company, which also includes social media platform X. Update: Ruddarraju has joined OpenAI. "After an unforgettable ride, I’ve decided to move on from xAI and yesterday was my last day," Ruddarraju said on LinkedIn.
After months of backlash over alleged pollution concerns, xAI has finally secured an air permit covering some of the methane gas turbines powering its Colossus supercomputer data center in Memphis, Tennessee.
Elon Musk's xAI has secured a permit to run 15 natural gas turbines at its Memphis AI facility despite lawsuits and pollution complaints, as the company scales up Grok supercomputing efforts with plans to deploy 1 million GPUs and raise up to $20 billion in funding.
xAI has been granted permission to run a permanent installation of 15 gas turbines at its Memphis data center. Shelby County Health Department gave the company a permit for the turbines, which the company says will act as a backup power source for the data center, at a meeting on Tuesday.
Elon Musk's xAI has secured a controversial air permit for its Memphis AI hub, escalating a legal battle with the NAACP and SELC over environmental justice and pollution concerns.
Elon Musk says he has formed a new political party called the America Party. But it remains unclear what formal steps, if any, he has taken to establish it.