The NAACP is appealing the Shelby County Health Department's decision to approve the use of gas turbines at one of xAI's Memphis campuses.

The turbines will be permitted to release a certain amount of emissions each year—including nitrous oxides, carbon monoxide, and formaldehyde—which, according to the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC),

An xAI official provided new details about plans for the artificial intelligence company's second Memphis facility — but not how it will be powered.

In a livestream with xAI colleagues, the billionaire entrepreneur described current AI systems as “primitive” and not for “serious” commercial use.

Elon Musk's xAI is under fire after its chatbot Grok on Tuesday shared anti-Semitic tropes and even praised Hitler. Grok is a computer program that can make conversation with humans. It has its own account on X — formerly Twitter — where it responds to users' questions.

Tech companies are looking to natural gas to power their data centers with natural gas. Opponents of Elon Musk's Memphis facility say its turbines are "silent strangulation" by air pollution. When a scientific analysis failed to find dangerous levels of pollutants,

The Grok feature on the X platform is polluting aBlack neighborhood, Boxtown in Memphis, Tennessee, due to overuse of AI.

Elon Musk's xAI reportedly seeks a $200B valuation after launching Grok 4, an AI that consults his views, amid corporate turmoil and ethical debates.