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Air quality analysis reveals minimal changes after xAI data center opens in pollution-burdened Memphis neighborhood

  • Written by Chunrong Jia, Professor of Environmental Health, University of Memphis
Air quality analysis reveals minimal changes after xAI data center opens in pollution-burdened Memphis neighborhoodGas turbines outside the xAI data center in Memphis.AP Photo/George Walker IV

Even before an Elon Musk-owned artificial intelligence company opened a data center in southwest Memphis, Tennessee, air pollution was so bad that residents of a nearby neighborhood were far more likely to get cancer from industrial air pollution than average Americans....

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