A House Democrat wants Musk to answer for xAI’s polluting data centres

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Frank Pallone has requested emissions data, permitting records, and a site visit for xAI's Colossus data centers powered by gas turbines near predominantly Black communities in Tennessee and Mississippi. The turbines, numbering 59 at Colossus 2, were installed without federal clean-air permits, raising environmental justice concerns and prompting legal actions from groups like the NAACP. xAI and the Justice Department have defended the turbines as vital,