https://it-news.uk/tags/ai-data-centers/ Recent content in Ai-Data-Centers on IT News Hugo en-us Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://it-news.uk/posts/elon-musk-xai-data-center-gas-turbines-tennessee/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://it-news.uk/posts/elon-musk-xai-data-center-gas-turbines-tennessee/ <p>Data centers guzzle electricity, but a different kind of pollution is now drawing lawsuits in Tennessee. Elon Musk&rsquo;s AI company — xAI, recently renamed SpaceXAI after merging with SpaceX — installed 59 natural gas turbines at its Colossus 2 data center without the required federal permits. The health data around the facility tells a troubling story.</p> <p>Reuters broke the story Tuesday based on internal communications between xAI representatives and government regulators. The company had officially disclosed only 27 turbines at the Tennessee site in January 2026. The documents reveal 59 were actually installed and running.</p>