Floodlight52%
Video: We caught Elon Musk's AI company flouting EPA rules using a thermal drone 65%
By Evan Simon/Floodlight49%
3/6/2026, 9:07:29 AM
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Environmental Protection Agency, Gas Turbines, Data Centers, Elon Musk, Xai
Keywords: Data Centers
BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Recency Bias, Post Hoc (False Cause), and Unattributed Quote, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 40.3% saturation with 64 hits. Analysis detected 382 faulty-reasoning hits from 159 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 51.3% and a BS Rank of 65% (10,462 of 29,795 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 64.90% of the article peer group.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, is continuing to fuel its data centers with unpermitted gas turbines, according to a Floodlight visual investigation.
Thermal drone footage captured in late January 2026, shows xAI running the unpermitted turbines at its custom built powerplant in Southaven, Miss., nearly two weeks after an Environmental Protection Agency ruling reiterated that doing so requires a state permit in advance.
The ad hoc gas plant's sole task is to power the datacenter behind Grok and is part of an increasing reliance among AI companies on fossil fuels.
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