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0 pointsACCount372mo ago0 comments

Check 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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foobarqux2mo ago

That plant is subject to regulation and the xAI turbines evade regulations by claiming they are "portable".

badc0ffee2mo ago

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.

immibis2mo ago

It's not overblown. That plant has sufficient pollution filters installed. You can find more info elsewhere in this comment section.

badc0ffee2mo ago

But it's still not localized to the one neighbourhood in the Time article any more than any other in Memphis (or even West Memphis across the river).

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0 pointsACCount372mo ago0 comments

Basically, it looks like the whole "xAI poisoning black neighborhoods" thing is the usual FUD by the usual agenda pushers.

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foobarqux2mo ago

That plant is subject to regulation and the xAI turbines evade regulations by claiming they are "portable".

badc0ffee2mo ago

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.

immibis2mo ago

It's not overblown. That plant has sufficient pollution filters installed. You can find more info elsewhere in this comment section.

badc0ffee2mo ago

But it's still not localized to the one neighbourhood in the Time article any more than any other in Memphis (or even West Memphis across the river).

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