alt Hacker NewsCheck the map. There's an operational industrial scale natural gas power plant next door to xAI facility. And it was there for what, a decade already? Before it, there was a coal power plant there too.
Basically, it looks like the whole "xAI poisoning black neighborhoods" thing is the usual FUD by the usual agenda pushers.
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foobarqux • today at 12:16 AM
That plant is subject to regulation and the xAI turbines evade regulations by claiming they are "portable".
I just looked, and you're right. It's in an industrial area several km from homes, and near existing NG facilities, including one where they flare gas.
https://www.facebook.com/abacustrategic/posts/pfbid02rrUwoWM...
https://maps.app.goo.gl/fYwcSi8vfPBnsYeK7
I don't doubt that it is a source of pollution, but I agree that this is overblown in the same was as the claims that datacentres are using up all the fresh water.