Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 data center installed 59 natural gas turbines without permission, report claims — thousands of tons of pollutants reportedly impact black communities in Mississippi already suff
2026-07-15 04:37 UTC
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@philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club 2026-07-15 05:05
I fail to see the relevance of race on this context. Its like they want to pit us against each other but this is a class issue. Its us vs the oligarchs and they are presently winning
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@A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 2026-07-15 05:09
I swear I read an article about this months ago… is it the same data center and they still didn’t stop the gas turbines, or is this another one? Either way: fuck Musk and fuck the government who laid the foundations for such atrocities.
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@Dettweiler42@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-15 06:03
I was landing in Memphis a few weeks ago, and you can see the literal cloud of pollution surrounding this thing. There’s a distinct haze you can see centered on the thing.
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@eicker@lemmy.world 2026-07-15 07:27
Funny how the self proclaimed savior of humanity keeps treating regulations like optional DLC: If anyone else ran 59 gas turbines without permits they would be buried in fines. Billionaires call it innovation, everyone breathing nearby calls it another asthma attack waiting to happen.
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@sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-15 23:01
I work in emissions monitoring and this is super illegal.
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@SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-07-16 00:27
This makes me wonder what would happen if one would pour glass dust in the air intake of thos generators.
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@dasrael@lemmy.zip 2026-07-16 02:41
“black communities” …say no more, they’re fuckin’ SOL…
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@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-16 06:34
Why does it matter if the community is inhabitated my residents of a daek skin color? Are Lemmy users really that fixated on skin color? Are we in that need for upvotes and non-existant karma Do you want to spark controversial discussions? Why did you do felt the need to mention “black communities”. And don’t tell me it’s because you copy pasted the title of the source article or something.
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@ReHomed@lemmy.cafe 2026-07-16 06:08
I have a suspicion they put the gas turbines near those communities specifically to fuck with them the same way they bulldozed poor neighborhoods for roads