Federal Judge Lets NAACP Clean Air Act Suit Over xAI's 35 Memphis Gas Turbines Proceed

Judge Debra M. Brown on October 31 denied xAI's motion to dismiss the NAACP's Clean Air Act suit, finding the Southern Environmental Law Center has standing to pursue claims that xAI installed and operated at least 35 combustion turbines at its Colossus data center outside Memphis without preconstruction or operating air permits. The court rejected xAI's argument that the turbines qualify as exempt 'mobile sources' under Mississippi's State Implementation Plan.