The Trump administration is trying to block the Clean Air Act lawsuit against xAI gas turbines

The Trump administration is trying to help Elon Musk’s xAI Corp. fighting the Clean Air Act lawsuit filed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The US said the NAACP lawsuit threatens the xAI data center that powers Grok’s systems needed by the military.

Price NAACP the defendant xAI and MZX Tech sponsors in April, alleging that they violated the Clean Air Act by operating 27 gas turbines without an air permit in Southaven, Mississippi. The number of illegal turbines rose to 57 by mid-May and there were plans to install two more, the NAACP said. June 12 posting.

“Critics of the Colossus Gas Plant power xAI near the Colossus 2 data center, which powers the chatbot ‘Grok,'” the lawsuit said. Gas turbines have increased health concerns as well noise complaints.

Attorneys for the US Department of Justice urged a federal judge to drop the case in a reservation yesterday. The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality determined that the turbines do not require permits, the US filing said.

The case “threatened (the) intelligence capabilities, and the power necessary to carry them out,” the US said. “The NAACP’s attempt to remove the power that supports Grok also threatens national security because … Grok provides vital support for the War Department’s military operations.” A US court said that xAI’s Grok Gov Model facilitated attacks on Iran during Operation Epic Fury.

Grok was used by the Maven Smart System to help the US military “deliver more than 2,000 weapons to 2,000 specific targets within 96 hours during Operation Epic Fury, a testament to the high level of performance achieved with the Grok Gov Model,” according to a. to announce By Cameron Stanley, chief of digital technology and innovation for the Department of Defense. The Grok Gov Model has unique features not found in any other AI model, he wrote.

The US helped xAI break the law, the group says

The US argues “that xAI should be allowed to break the law because the Trump administration says so,” he said The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), which is representing the NAACP in the lawsuit.