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People Living Near xAI’s Dirty Data Centers Are Furious About the SpaceX IPO

2026-06-11 · WIRED

Communities in Mississippi and Tennessee are fighting xAI's gas turbine-powered supercomputer facilities that are polluting their neighborhoods, while Musk is about to cash in hundreds of billions from the SpaceX IPO. Nothing says 'building the future' like choking your neighbors with dirty energy so your chatbot can generate better shitposts.

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