xAI Ignores Laws and Profits: Rules for Thee, Not for Me
In the meantime, real people will face declining health and increased pollution. This is not a new story, but it's worth telling anyway. xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout For those blissfully unaware, xAI is the subsidiary of SpaceX (previously under X, which itself was previously Twitter) that is in charge of AI development and data centers for the xAI series of products. Now with a product like that, you might be surprised to learn that some people aren't jazzed about its continuing development and growth, especially when it spews smog in their backyard. xAI continues to barge forward however; decriers be damned in the name of "progress".
- ▪In the meantime, real people will face declining health and increased pollution.
- ▪This is not a new story, but it's worth telling anyway. xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout For those blissfully unaware, xAI is the subsidiary of SpaceX (previously under X, which itself was previously Twitter) that is in charge of A
- ▪Now with a product like that, you might be surprised to learn that some people aren't jazzed about its continuing development and growth, especially when it spews smog in their backyard. xAI continues to barge forward however; decriers be d
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8/1/2026 xAI Ignores Laws And Profits: Rules For Thee, Not For Me In the latest example of corporations existing outside of the law, SpaceX (who is for some reason the controlling entity of xAI now) announced they'll be removing the illegal, unpermitted gas turbines they've been running at their Memphis Colossus data center... by July 2027. xAI gets to flout economic planning and restrictions that any normal group would have to follow, all for the sake of being able to get another fuckass data center built in record time. In the meantime, real people will face declining health and increased pollution. This is not a new story, but it's worth telling anyway.
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