June 16, 2026

The US government is defending xAI’s polluting turbines as vital to the war effort

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The US Justice Department has taken Elon Musk’s side in a pollution lawsuit, arguing that the gas turbines powering his AI data centre are too important to national security to switch off. In a filing on Monday, the department, joined by the state of...