Elon Musk’s XAI datacenter generating extra electricity illegally, regulator rules
A US regulator ruled on Thursday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company had acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power huge datacenters in Tennessee.
xAI has been fighting for a year and a half over truck-sized gas turbines the company had parked near its Colossus 1 and 2 facilities, arguing to local authorities that the electricity-generating turbines were exempt from requirements for air quality permits.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared on Thursday that the generators were not exempt. In its ruling, the agency revised the policies around gas turbines, saying that operating the machines still requires air permits even if they are used on a portable or temporary basis, as had been the case.
There is a strong flavour of "Get Musk" about this, especially as it's the EPA sniffing out the wrong electricity in the line.
7 comments:
The war on methane or the war on Musk?
Darth Vader: I am changing the deal. Pray I do not change it any further.
James - Musk and the joys of regulation I reckon, they don't really care about methane.
Barbarus - ha ha, that's a neat comparison.
"air quality permits" - are those a sort of indulgence you buy from the Priesthood of the Holy Environment? The idea seems to be that you are guilty until proven innocent.
dearieme - "Priesthood of the Holy Environment" ha ha, I like that.
You believe these UK electricity suppliers who can provide you only with "renewable Green energy" ?
They have developed a fancy diode thingy which only lets Green electrons dash up and down their wires.
Safe and effective!!!
Doonhamer - I don't know how they get away with their "Green energy" claims. There must be at least some solid, technical complaints about the claims, but policy beats reality every time.
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