Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 data center installed 59 natural gas turbines without permission, report claims — thousands of tons of pollutants reportedly impact black communities in Mississippi already suffering from elevated lung disease rates
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Estimates suggest that about half of the unpermitted turbines generate 2,500 tons of NOx, 4,000 tons of CO, and 22 tons of formaldehyde every year.
  • eicker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    76·
    11 hours ago

    Funny how the self proclaimed savior of humanity keeps treating regulations like optional DLC: If anyone else ran 59 gas turbines without permits they would be buried in fines. Billionaires call it innovation, everyone breathing nearby calls it another asthma attack waiting to happen.

    • Patrikvo@lemmy.zipEnglish
      28·
      8 hours ago

      Don’t worry, it’s only affecting a poor area. No billionairs are affected.

    • Lemmayng@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      7 hours ago

      keeps treating regulations like optional DLC

      He, like any shillionaire, sees people as NPCs.

      That’s why he was so enthusiastic to kill infants, children, teens and adults by cutting USAID.

      If he’s ever admitted to a hospital, I genuinely hope that he’s left to suffer and rot.