Musk’s xAI wins permit for datacenter’s makeshift power plant despite backlash
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Source: The Guardian TechnologyMarch 10, 2026
Summary
Elon Musk's AI company xAI received approval to operate 41 methane gas turbines at its Mississippi datacenter to power its AI supercomputers (large arrays of specialized computing chips used to train and run AI models), nearly doubling its current power capacity. These turbines will provide electricity for xAI's infrastructure that supports Grok, the company's AI chatbot product.
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Attack SophisticationTrivial
AI Component TargetedInference
Affected Vendors
xAI
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Original source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/10/elon-musk-xai-data-centers
First tracked: March 11, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 75%