Environmental groups say xAI violating federal law with turbines
The groups are urging the Health Department to issue an emergency order to stop xAI’s operation of what appear to be dozens of natural gas turbines in Southwest Memphis.
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April 2025
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City Council Scorecard: Tabling Chickasaw Gardens, the Musk divide
The Memphis City Council delayed indefinitely any decision on the proposed closings of two streets in Chickasaw Gardens, and environmental impacts of an xAI plant caused a riff in the body.
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Officials seeks public comment on xAI air permit
As local groups push against xAI’s turbines as part of a fight against pollution, the Health Department director said she will schedule a public hearing on the permit for the company’s Southwest Memphis plant.
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March 2025
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Shelby County Commission goes deep on school, xAI actions
The Monday, March 31, County Commission meeting will be a busy one. On the agenda is an advisory board for Memphis-Shelby County Schools and a call for public hearings on xAI’s permitting process.
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Trump could exempt xAI from air-emissions permit
President Donald Trump could potentially exempt a large portion of heavy industry from emissions standards. Here’s what that could mean for xAI in Memphis.
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Young hopes to dodge tax hike as budget looms
Memphis Mayor Paul Young also heard more concerns about xAI at the One Memphis forum Wednesday, but promised to devote its tax revenue to specific public projects in Southwest Memphis.
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Mayor faces community uproar about xAI
Environmental advocates are looking to stop Elon Musk’s xAI from receiving an air-emissions permit for the natural turbines that partially power its data center in Southwest Memphis.
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Memphis City Council gives final approval to xAI land deal
The Memphis City Council voted again Tuesday to approve a land sale for Elon Musk’s xAI to build a wastewater facility in Southwest Memphis.
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City Council approves land sale to xAI
The company’s first effort to buy the land,which would be used for a water recycling facility, was derailed by council skepticism in early February.
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XAI building new data center in Whitehaven
It sits a few hundred yards from the Tennessee Valley Authority Southaven Combined Cycle Plant. The plant will provide a power source for the energy-intensive data center.
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February 2025
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‘A unified voice’: Memphis Chamber group makes itself heard in Nashville
Eighty-six members of the Greater Memphis Chamber traveled to Nashville to meet with state legislators, officers and cabinet heads to advocate for issues relevant to the local business community.
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Memphis Chamber, economists say city is in ‘high-growth phase’
Last year was the first time the city exceeded $100 billion in gross regional product, officials at the Greater Memphis Chamber State of the Economy luncheon said.
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Here’s what xAI could use 552 acres for
Last year, xAI agreed to lease 552 acres from the Economic Development Growth Engine. For months, it has been unclear what plans xAI had for the land.
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Why Elon Musk chose Memphis for xAI facility
At the end of a product-release broadcast on X, Elon Musk explained why xAI chose the Bluff City and the former Electrolux building in Southwest Memphis.
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With xAI intending to keep turbines, community concerned about pollution
On Thursday, xAI’s plans to use natural gas turbines in the long term became public after The Daily Memphian received the company’s recent application to the Shelby County Health Department for an air-emissions permit.
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Conaway: Bottled arrogance, just in time for Valentine’s
Dan Conaway writes, “We’ve been chosen as the test market for a new men’s cologne just in time for Valentine’s Day: Elon Musk.”
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XAI plans to use natural gas turbines long-term
CTC Property, a subsidiary of xAI, applied for air-emissions permits for its fleet of natural gas turbines in January.
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Proposed xAI greywater plant faces City Council skepticism
An xAI representative received a mixed reception from the Memphis City Council regarding the company’s plan to buy 13 city-owned acres where it will build the greywater plant.
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Memphis could sell xAI land for greywater plant
XAI applied for a permit to construct the water reuse facility last year.
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XAI has been slow to pay MLGW
According to copies of its bills, MLGW has sent xAI at least three notices that its electric and water service could be cut off.
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January 2025
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‘Conservative’ estimates show xAI could bring city, county $13.5 million in revenue
Two county officials told the Shelby County Commission last week that the xAI supercomputer could generate at least $13.5 million in tax revenue.
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XAI opens path to work with Memphis-area businesses
“It is important to us as a company that we grow in Memphis. We want our fellow businesses to grow, too.”
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XAI vendor secures facility in Memphis
Houston-based Solaris Energy Infrastructure is opening a 34,000-square-foot warehouse in Whitehaven. The company is a vendor for the Elon Musk-founded AI company xAI.
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Tenn. Gov. Bill Lee tours Memphis’ xAI facility
Lee was joined on the tour by Lt. Gov. Randy McNally and Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton — but not xAI founder Elon Musk.
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MLGW: xAI’s massive expansion a long way from connecting to grid
“It is a physics problem, not a political problem, on how much energy can be provided here,” MLGW CEO Doug McGowen told the Memphis City Council on Tuesday.
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