The NAACP is appealing the Shelby County Health Department's decision to approve the use of gas turbines at one of xAI's Memphis campuses.

AI already operates a data center in Memphis, Tennessee, and has plans for a second facility in the same city.

The two groups have demanded the state's health department take action against Elon Musk's xAI company.

An xAI official provided new details about plans for the artificial intelligence company's second Memphis facility — but not how it will be powered.

The ordinance comes months after Memphis Mayor Paul Memphis Mayor Paouln Young proposed dedicating some revenue to areas closest to the supercomputer.

Elon Musk's plans to ship an overseas power plant to Memphis for an xAI supercomputer raise both interest and environmental concerns.

Elon Musk's xAI announced new technology to sustainably cool its data center in Memphis, using a Membrane Bioreactor & untreated wastewater.

On Tuesday, the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) filed the appeal with the Memphis and Shelby County Air Pollution Control Board on behalf of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and Young, Gifted, and Green.