by Shireen Akram-Boshar | Nov 3, 2026 | data centers, Elon Musk, Environment and Health, NAACP, News, Trump Administration
A federal judge has denied a motion by Elon Musk’s xAI company to dismiss the NAACP’s lawsuit against its data center in Mississippi. On October 30, Chief U.S. District Judge Debra M. Brown ruled that the NAACP’s lawsuit against xAI and its Mississippi data center, Colossus, could proceed. In April, the NAACP filed a complaint against xAI — owned by SpaceX — for violating the Clean Air…
Source
by Shireen Akram-Boshar | Jun 2, 2026 | AI, Climate Crisis, data centers, Donald Trump, Environment and Health, Michigan, News, Sam Altman, Trump Administration
On Monday, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer joined tech CEOs and businessmen at a groundbreaking ceremony for a $16 billion data center in rural Michigan. The data center — the first OpenAI data center in the Midwest — is already under construction, despite facing pushback from local residents. It is located in Saline Township, a rural agricultural community just 10 miles southwest of Ann Arbor…
Source
