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Is Elon Musk’s supercomputer polluting Memphis?
Elon Musk says xAI has one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. It’s located in Memphis, Tennessee and it’s called Colossus. But neighborhood residents say Colossus belches colossal pollution.
This is a question that has maybe an obvious answer, but can you imagine that trailers with 30 plus methane gas turbines would be brought into any other neighborhood in Memphis, parked there for a year, allowed to emit their air pollutants, and the health department would be, would say, they're just temporary. HARDIMAN: Yeah, actually the reason the public knows about this is we, the Daily Memphian, reported it, personnel with the Shelby County Assessor's office explained to us, because for a long time I was essentially after them show me the personal property tax schedule for xAI, because this is, as KeShaun said, $12 billion worth of investment. And essentially what personnel at the Shelby County Assessor's office told the Daily Memphian is they informed xAI during the process of this, that if the microchips were, the semiconductors were not on site and they came in as used, as if they had been previously been used, they would only be taxed on about $2.5, $3 billion worth of personal property.
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