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DOJ assists Musk’s xAI in NAACP air pollution suit

The Department of Justice is asking a Mississippi federal court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the NAACP against xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence lab that is now owned by SpaceX. In its motion to intervene, the DOJ accused the NAACP of threatening “American national, economic, and energy security” by seeking to shut off power supply needed for AI development. The suit filed in April by the NAACP claimed that xAI violated the federal Clean Air Act by using dozens of methane gas-burning turbines to power its AI data centers without proper permits or pollution controls. “There is no moral or legal precedent for this,” said Laura Thoms, the director of enforcement for Earthjustice, which is representing the NAACP. “This isn’t about national security; it’s a desperate attempt to protect wealthy tech companies from obeying the laws meant to protect people from pollution.”

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