June 11, 2026

Mississippi residents file a 10,000-strong class action against Musk’s xAI and SpaceX over data-centre noise

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The backlash against AI data centres has reached a new stage: a class-action lawsuit. Residents of Mississippi have sued Elon Musk’s xAI and SpaceX, claiming a gas-fired power plant that feeds nearby data centres blasts “omnipresent and inescapable”...