Elon Musk的SpaceXAI在唐纳德·特朗普未能说服一名法官，说他的环境保护局(EPA)完全控制了所有清洁空气法案的诉讼，可以随意驳回任何诉讼后，因据称的数据中心污染而面临诉讼。
在未许可的燃气涡轮机被发现为穆斯克位于田纳西州孟菲斯的巨型Colossus数据中心提供动力后不久，NAACP起诉。 其诉讼寻求一项禁令，要求xAI(合并后，现称为SpaceXAI)在运行涡轮机时使用现有最佳的污染控制技术，并下令对每次违法行为处以每天高达124 426美元的罚款。 没有这些补救措施，涡轮机就有可能在附近以黑人社区为主的本已脆弱的街区出现严重污染。
为了阻止诉讼，特朗普试图干预，认为环保局有权在任何时候单方面驳回总统决定不执行清洁空气法案的诉讼。 特朗普认为，如果允许公民寻求大规模民事处罚来惩罚那些试图让数据中心尽快运作以支持特朗普的AI行动计划的污染AI公司，那将“不符合公共利益 ”。
但特朗普放过穆斯克公司的努力被一名联邦法官星期二所阻止，他裁定"清洁空气法(CAA)"(Clean Air Act,CAA)中的"什么都没有"允许环保局署长"单方面驳回公民诉讼".
美国地区法官Debra Brown的指令建议，更进一步，她认为特朗普本可以利用权力为任何利益辩护，以对抗CAA的诉讼，而不仅仅是AI行业的诉讼。
有色人种协进会认为，《反腐败法》案文的重点是“确保达到空气污染标准并保护人民”。 它敦促法院承认，“没有办法阅读”一条规定，公民有权像特朗普那样提起诉讼。 也暗含地授权政府随意驳回这些诉讼，因为它更希望非法污染继续存在。
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Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI is stuck facing a lawsuit over alleged data center pollution after Donald Trump failed to convince a judge that his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has complete control over all Clean Air Act lawsuits and can dismiss any suit at whim.
Soon after unpermitted gas turbines were discovered powering Musk’s giant Colossus data center in Memphis, Tennessee, the NAACP sued. Its lawsuit sought an injunction requiring xAI (which, following a merger, is known now as SpaceXAI) to use the best available pollution control technology when operating the turbines and ordering penalties up to $124,426 per day per violation. Without such remedies, the turbines risked drastically spiking pollution in already vulnerable neighborhoods housing predominantly Black communities nearby, the NAACP argued.
To block the lawsuit, Trump tried to intervene, arguing that the EPA had the power to unilaterally dismiss lawsuits any time the president decides against enforcing the Clean Air Act. According to Trump, it would supposedly “not serve the public interest” if citizens were allowed to seek massive civil penalties to punish polluting AI firms that were trying to get data centers operational as fast as possible to support Trump’s AI Action Plan.
But Trump’s efforts to spare Musk’s firm were halted by a federal judge Tuesday, who ruled that “nothing” in the Clean Air Act (CAA) allows the EPA Administrator to “unilaterally dismiss a citizen suit.”
Such a power grab would seemingly give Trump authority to block any lawsuits alleging data center pollution, US District Judge Debra Brown’s order suggested. Even further, she observed that Trump could have used the authority to defend any interests against CAA lawsuits, not just the AI industry’s.
The NAACP had argued that the CAA’s text is focused “on ensuring air pollution standards are met and people are protected.” It urged the court to recognize that there is “no way to read” a provision granting citizens a right to sue as Trump has. That would “suggest that Congress, having gone out of its way to preserve people’s ability to sue to stop unlawful pollution when the government has not, also implicitly authorized the government to dismiss those very suits at its whim because it would prefer that the unlawful pollution continue,” the NAACP successfully argued.
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