Musk’s xAI is being sued over its data center generators. Now, it’s buying $2.8B more

Key points

• Elon Musk’s xAI has gotten itself in hot water over its use of polluting generators at its data center near Memphis, Tennessee.
• Now it wants to buy even more of them.
• In SpaceX’s IPO filing, released Wednesday, the company said its xAI division will buy another $2.8 billion worth of turbines for its AI infrastructure over the next three years.
• One deal, worth $2 billion, is specifically for “mobile gas turbines,” the kind that it’s currently being sued over.
• The NAACP filed a lawsuit against xAI last month for operating dozens of unregulated gas turbines that worsen the air quality in one of the most polluted parts of the country.