US DOJ Moves to Dismiss NAACP Air-Pollution Suit Targeting xAI Power Project, Citing National Security
The Trump administration has asked a federal court to dismiss an NAACP lawsuit alleging unpermitted natural gas turbines were used to power xAI’s Colossus 2 data centre near Memphis. The DOJ argues that restricting the project could threaten national security by constraining energy supply and compute capacity used for US military AI operations.