XAI’s colossus supercomputer raises health issues in Memphis

Starting AI by Elon Musk XAi plans to continue using 15 gas turbines to power its Colossus supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee, according to the Operation of Operations at Shelby District for the use of turbines without stopping from June 2025 to June 2025 2030

Why does it matter? The commercial appeal, an information newsletter that has received the documents, notes that Environmental concern have emerged as 20-year-old turbines emit dangerous air pollutants (HAP), including formaldehyde, at levels exceeding the 10-tonne annual EPA limit for a single source. (According to the history, the operational facility makes self -telling that turbines each separate 11.51 tonnes HAP per year.)

The turbines have already been held since the summer of 2024 without public notice or supervision, says Eric Hilt, a spokesman for the South Center for Environmental Law, the large environmental organization for non -profit and the permits do not take into account these emissions.

“This is another example of the company is not transparent with the community or local leaders,” Hilt told commercial attractiveness.

The health department tells the outcome that the permits have not yet been approved and there is no “no time limit for approval”.