MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Tigers Against Pollution, an organization made up of university students, held an anti-xAI march on Saturday in Whitehaven in protest of Elon Musk’s second xAI facility in Memphis.
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The protest started at Fairley High School on Fairley Road and made its way towards xAI’s “Colossus 2” supercomputer. Protesters marched from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. with signs they say they made the day before during their sign-making party at the University of Memphis campus.
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Those who are involved with the project say ‘Colussus 2,’ which is in Whitehaven, will be similar to the ‘Colussus’ site in Boxtown.
There have been pollution concerns about the xAI sites in Boxtown and Whitehaven; however, recent independent air quality tests did not detect dangerous levels of air pollutants in either of those areas.
However, the Southern Environmental Law Center says the tests were flawed because they did not measure ozone pollution.
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