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Judge denies xAI's motion and the NAACP lawsuit over pollution from the Colossus data center will proceed

Federal judge Debra M. Brown, in Mississippi, denied xAI's motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed by the NAACP with the Southern Environmental Law Center, which accuses the company of operating at least 35 gas turbines at the Colossus complex, in Southaven, near Memphis, without the permits required by the Clean Air Act. xAI argued the turbines were mobile, exempt sources; the judge rejected the argument. A similar motion by the Department of Justice had already been denied this month.