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New aerial surveillance footage obtained by the Southern Environmental Law Center has found that Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, is using 35 methane gas generators to power its "Colossus" supercomputer facility, the backbone of its flagship Grok. That's 20 more generators than the 15 xAI filed permits for, and 35 more than it was approved to use.

Local residents, meanwhile, are left to deal with the toxic fallout. One report by ProPublica found that the cancer rate in this area of Memphis is four times higher than the national average. The low, flat land here has historically been used as an out-of-site locale for megacorporations to plant industrial facilities, resulting in waves of health crises as toxins like ethylene oxide and arsenic pollute the nearby ground, water, and air.

Generators like xAI's emit huge amounts of nitrogen dioxide, a highly reactive gas which causes irreversible respiratory damage over time. And that's before you consider its effects on the ozone layer, or its contribution to acid rain, smog, and nutrient pollution in local soil and waterways. With 35 generators now chugging along, that's a whole chorus of turbines spewing the toxic gas into low-income, minority-led communities 24/7.

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[–] abc@hexbear.net 48 points 6 days ago (1 children)

someone needs to kill him.

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 23 points 6 days ago

grimes really dropped the ball

[–] Tiocfaidhcaisarla@hexbear.net 50 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This man's obsession with the letter x needs to be resolved with two over his fucking eyes

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 40 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Just comic book levels of evil. If you wrote a movie with the villain doing shit like this, people would call it ham-fisted and schlocky.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 22 points 6 days ago

Hell, he's even an Ayn Rand villain.

He's worse then evil (which is fine, actually.) He did something unforgivable....he PRETENDED to be good and just ended up being evil.

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 35 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Apropos of nothing, I suspect disabling/destroying data centers will almost certainly be the next frontier for ecoterrorism.

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How to blow up a data center has a nice ring to it

[–] hexthismess@hexbear.net 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They should write a book about that.

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago

Andreas Malm and Ed Zitron

[–] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 23 points 6 days ago (2 children)

it's like some final fantasy mako reactor shit polluting the lifestream and burning up the planets inhabitants except instead of summoning some powerful demonic entity it summons up a chatbot to pretend to be your friend as it summarizes a reddit post relevant to your prompt

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago

the cutscene where hojo fires the cannon powered by all of Midgar's reactors but he's just asking Grok dumb questions.

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 24 points 6 days ago
[–] BobDole@hexbear.net 21 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Would be a shame if something happened to the transformers

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 12 points 6 days ago

Be reaaaaaal careful with this one. It's Musk, if caught it's going to be prosecuted as terrorism and they WILL send you to the death camps for it.

If any comrades out there consider it please take the consequences seriously and prep properly.

[–] durruticore@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago

Would be a real shame if something happened to him

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 23 points 6 days ago

I feel like the only thing you can do at this point is write dystopian novels about what could happen in the future and show what the characters did to liberate themselves in detail

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 17 points 6 days ago
[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago

That's a bastard gas! Only use propane

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

aerial surveillance footage

I yearn for the SPLC drone army

[–] CPMSP@midwest.social 3 points 6 days ago