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.

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.

One man harming thousands. Sounds like a crime that would be punishable by death in olden times.

Can someone just shoot the bastard?

I work in emissions monitoring and this is super illegal.

Im sure the American legal system will get those wheels of justice spinning on this in a few years.

Remember that anthropic are renting this data center, and should be seen as just as responsible as Musk.

https://www.theverge.com/science/935229/spacex-anthropic-ipo-ai-capacity-deal-colossus

Also Musk is such a loser, he built and ran this giant polluting data center without knowing what to do with it, and ended up renting it out at what looks like a loss.

It's nice to see Elon following in his father's footsteps of hurting black people in an effort to get even more needlessly rich. Honestly though, somebody should take Elon back to South Africa and hurl him down a mineshaft.

people did that work, just because elon musk tells people what to do doesn't mean those people should be exonerated from the consequences as well. the people doing the work sure as shit falls out there ass, know there was no permit. if there no permit, then why not a great fire ball in the night sky.

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.

I have a suspicion they put the gas turbines near those communities specifically to fuck with them the same way they bulldozed poor neighborhoods for roads

Ozymandias

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.

It's sad that the norm is to expect those in power will try to ruin lives as fast and as efficiently as possible. Just why... They have billions of dollars already... Why

"black communities" ...say no more, they're fuckin' SOL...

They are just going to call it another "Sacrifice Zone" like they do the cancer alley in Louisiana arent they?

Some people just are expendable for progress, what can the country do?

It's shocking that they just seem to sit out there in the open. Afaik they are very delicate and fragile machines.

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.

Meanwhile if you put a couple of solar panels on your roof without filling out nineteen different forms in triplicate, providing a notarized drawing by a licensed architectural firm, paying $2000 in fees plus enduring the eleven month processing time, your local code authority will put a lien on your property and send a SWAT team to your house.