A Judge Told Musk's AI Company Its 'Temporary' Power Plant Is a Power Plant. The Next Day He Announced Two More Data Centers Named Spam and Gun Range, Online by Christmas
About This Episode
On Friday October 30 Judge Debra M. Brown of the Northern District of Mississippi refused to dismiss the NAACP's Clean Air Act suit over the trailer-mounted gas turbines powering Colossus 2 in Southaven, ruling they are not exempt 'mobile sources' and that citizen suits are constitutional. On Saturday Musk said on X that two more Colossus 2 sites, Gun Range and Spam, will be operational by the end of November and December, with about 1.2 million Nvidia Blackwell chips on the campus by year end. Contractors have filed more than $220 million in liens, the state is seeking $6.1 million in penalties, and the company is buying up neighbors' homes.
Our Take
Musk's AI company makes its own electricity on trailers, and the courts are only now catching up to the first plant while he announces two more sites, so the question is whether a permit system built around how long humans take to build things can see a power plant that arrives in weeks.
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