- Residents near a natural gas-turbine power plant in Southaven, Mississippi, supplying electricity to SpaceXAI’s data centers, are experiencing constant noise levels comparable to a vacuum cleaner, causing sleep disturbances and difficulty concentrating.
Shante Polk describes the noise from the plant built across from her family’s Southaven, Mississippi land as “standing near airport runways, but they never take off.” Her once-quiet, wooded property now belongs to the industrial drone, around the clock. If you’re worried about your property rights, learn how power companies can seize your land for projects like this.
The source of that roar is a natural gas-turbine power plant supplying electricity to SpaceXAI’s Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 data centers in the Memphis region, which the company describes as among the world’s largest AI supercomputers. Those turbines run continuously, and so does the noise.
The Noise That Never Takes Off
The numbers are not abstract: this is what a vacuum cleaner sounds like, running inside your home, every hour of every day.
Southaven homeowner Jason Haley recorded interior noise levels around 70 decibels inside his home, roughly what a vacuum cleaner sounds like, day and night without pause. “The noise from Colossus II and its gas-burning turbines is like a form of torture,” Haley told CNBC…