Musk’s xAI wins permit for datacenter’s makeshift power plant despite backlash

Billionaire's artificial intelligence company gets approval to run 41 methane gas turbines at its Colossus 2' in Mississippi

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI won approval on Tuesday to run 41 methane gas turbines at its Colossus 2" datacenter in northern Mississippi. That's nearly double the amount it has been operating.

The turbines will help power xAI's massive datacenters, which house the company's AI supercomputers", or giant arrays of advanced chips, which in turn power the controversial AI tool Grok, the company's most recognizable product.