AI Labs Are Solving the Power Problem

Re:AI Labs Are Solving the Power Problem by ACCount37 on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @05:56PM (#46449222)

Check the map. There's an operational industrial scale natural gas power plant next door to xAI facility. And it was there for what, a decade already? Before it, there was a coal power plant there too.

Basically, it looks like the whole "xAI poisoning black neighborhoods" thing is the usual FUD by the usual agenda pushers.

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Re:AI Labs Are Solving the Power Problem by badc0ffee on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @07:57PM (#46450086)

I just looked, and you're right. It's in an industrial area several km from homes, and near existing NG facilities, including one where they flare gas.

https://www.facebook.com/abacustrategic/posts/pfbid02rrUwoWM...

https://maps.app.goo.gl/fYwcSi8vfPBnsYeK7

I don't doubt that it is a source of pollution, but I agree that this is overblown in the same was as the claims that datacentres are using up all the fresh water.

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Re:AI Labs Are Solving the Power Problem by immibis on Thursday January 01, 2026 @10:02AM (#46454654)

It's not overblown. That plant has sufficient pollution filters installed. You can find more info elsewhere in this comment section.

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Re:AI Labs Are Solving the Power Problem by badc0ffee on Thursday January 01, 2026 @12:47PM (#46456171)

But it's still not localized to the one neighbourhood in the Time article any more than any other in Memphis (or even West Memphis across the river).

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Re:AI Labs Are Solving the Power Problem by foobarqux on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @07:16PM (#46449781)

That plant is subject to regulation and the xAI turbines evade regulations by claiming they are "portable".

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