SpaceX Won't Pull xAI's Unpermitted Turbines From the Colossus Data Centers for Another Year
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SpaceX is building a new power plant to serve xAI's Colossus data centers but will not remove the existing unpermitted turbines for many more months, TechCrunch reported July 31. The turbines have been the flashpoint in the Memphis air-quality fight since xAI stood Colossus up, and the timeline means an AI training cluster keeps running on unpermitted generation for roughly another year post-SpaceX absorption of xAI. It is a concrete data point on what frontier-scale compute is actually willing to externalize.