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fubarx@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 hours ago

Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 data center installed 59 natural gas turbines without permission, report claims — thousands of tons of pollutants reportedly impact black communities in Mississippi already suff

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Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 data center installed 59 natural gas turbines without permission, report claims — thousands of tons of pollutants reportedly impact black communities in Mississippi already suff

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fubarx@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 hours ago
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Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 data center installed 59 natural gas turbines without permission, report claims — thousands of tons of pollutants reportedly impact black communities in Mississippi already suffering from elevated lung disease rates
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Estimates suggest that about half of the unpermitted turbines generate 2,500 tons of NOx, 4,000 tons of CO, and 22 tons of formaldehyde every year.
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  • Katherine 🪴@piefed.social
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    I hope Elon dies and I hope it’s painful; dying would be the first positive thing he ever contributed to humanity

    • cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      It needs to die ugly.

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    Can someone just shoot the bastard?

    • remon@ani.social
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      Other methods are also acceptable.

      • Random_Character_A@lemmy.world
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        Some polonium tee, hopefully

        • Senseless@feddit.org
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          Did someone say Nowitschok?

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    Funny how the self proclaimed savior of humanity keeps treating regulations like optional DLC: If anyone else ran 59 gas turbines without permits they would be buried in fines. Billionaires call it innovation, everyone breathing nearby calls it another asthma attack waiting to happen.

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    JC, every other post on here is about data centers, Elon Musk or White House legislation. Can’t we talk about technology instead of US politics?

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    I swear I read an article about this months ago… is it the same data center and they still didn’t stop the gas turbines, or is this another one?

    Either way: fuck Musk and fuck the government who laid the foundations for such atrocities.

    • cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      No,that was portable generator trucks that were not ‘installed’. This is new.

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        You’re right!

        So, from bad to worse…

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      No, Grok has been classified by the DOJ as vital national security infrastructure and is not allowed to be shut down.

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      it’s more turbines, not sure if it’s the same site or another

      • ORbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        These new ones erase the old ones. Do over!

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      This would be a great time for an injunction to force the data center to shut down all of those turbines until the matter has been resolved legally.

      Of course you need to be able to pay for a lawyer who convinces a judge to pass that injunction.

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        House Republicans include a 10-year ban on US states regulating AI in ‘big, beautiful’ bill

        We’re at a point where we have to ask whether laws passed are legal.

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        A judge that Musk and Trump have bought? Or a real judge? Do you have any of those left?

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          I’m pretty sure that if a judge would grant that injunction there’d be one less a week later.

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    I will add this to the list of reasons I’m happy not to live in the USA, as soon as I manage to add new page to it.

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    I was landing in Memphis a few weeks ago, and you can see the literal cloud of pollution surrounding this thing. There’s a distinct haze you can see centered on the thing.

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    I fail to see the relevance of race on this context. Its like they want to pit us against each other but this is a class issue. Its us vs the oligarchs and they are presently winning

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      We’re talking about America here. Everything is a race issue. Its almost apartheid.

      I guess the turbines were build near a neighbourhood that mostly houses black people.

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      Yeah it’s a class issue. Being white alone won’t get you in their club. But they also really hate darker skinned people and go out of their way to be extra shitty to them.

      The two things aren’t exclusive of one another.

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        You mean like the CEOs of Microsoft and Google or?

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      I suspect its more to highlight musk’s contribution to systemic racism and race-based inequality than to try and divide us by color lines. In an ideal world, racist shit like this should unite us even more through our shared disgust at how abhorent their behavior is.

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      I don’t know how they are winning. I haven’t given them any of my money.

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        They are winning if nobody makes them tear down such illegal constructions.

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