ON XAI IN MEMPHIS: “There’s a horrible, sulfurous smell in the air… residents don’t want to open their windows… BOXTOWN is 90% Black… Musk did everything behind closed doors… environmental racism… not many jobs, no direct investment in BOXTOWN…”
December 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
ON XAI IN MEMPHIS: “There’s a horrible, sulfurous smell in the air… residents don’t want to open their windows… BOXTOWN is 90% Black… Musk did everything behind closed doors… environmental racism… not many jobs, no direct investment in BOXTOWN…”
#Memphis population is 62.7% Black, has been dealing with pollution from AI data centers for two years along with DECADES of generational pollution from factories in nearby Boxtown...
www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
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Memphis AI data center fuels pollution fight in Black neighborhood
The stench of rotten eggs and burning debris fills the air in Boxtown, a predominantly Black neighborhood in Memphis.Teenager Jasmine Bernard, who lives in a neighborhood bordering Boxtown, has been f...
www.yahoo.com
August 23, 2026 at 4:59 AM
#Memphis population is 62.7% Black, has been dealing with pollution from AI data centers for two years along with DECADES of generational pollution from factories in nearby Boxtown...
www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
Democracy Now, please stop platforming existential riskers. They are eugenicists with fantasies of AI grandeur.
Meanwhile, Boxtown residents are still dying from xAI data centers.
Meanwhile, Boxtown residents are still dying from xAI data centers.
Is AI superintelligence inevitable? AI safety researcher David Krueger says it doesn’t have to be. Krueger, a professor at the University of Montreal, says “we need to mitigate the risk of extinction” with regulation and moratoriums to halt the development of AI’s computational power and complexity.
Amid Growing Fears of Rogue AI, Expert Urges Governments to “Bring This to a Grinding Halt”
Is AI superintelligence inevitable? AI safety researcher David Krueger says it doesn’t have to be. Krueger, an assistant professor at the University of Montreal and founder of the nonprofit Evitable, ...
www.democracynow.org
August 6, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Democracy Now, please stop platforming existential riskers. They are eugenicists with fantasies of AI grandeur.
Meanwhile, Boxtown residents are still dying from xAI data centers.
Meanwhile, Boxtown residents are still dying from xAI data centers.
PEOPLE MAG ON MUSK VS. MEMPHIS: “Resident says she can’t open windows anymore because of rotten smell from living near Elon’s data center in BOXTOWN…”
No community input. Just vague promises of jobs and investment. @MemphisChamber @mayorpaulyoung
people.com/resident-liv...
No community input. Just vague promises of jobs and investment. @MemphisChamber @mayorpaulyoung
people.com/resident-liv...
December 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
PEOPLE MAG ON MUSK VS. MEMPHIS: “Resident says she can’t open windows anymore because of rotten smell from living near Elon’s data center in BOXTOWN…”
No community input. Just vague promises of jobs and investment. @MemphisChamber @mayorpaulyoung
people.com/resident-liv...
No community input. Just vague promises of jobs and investment. @MemphisChamber @mayorpaulyoung
people.com/resident-liv...
“Grok allows users to make deepfakes depicting things like Mickey Mouse wearing a Nazi uniform. Musk has called it ‘the most fun AI in the world.’
Boxtown residents say they have been paying for the images with their health.”
Boxtown residents say they have been paying for the images with their health.”
Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.
'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
www.politico.com
May 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“Grok allows users to make deepfakes depicting things like Mickey Mouse wearing a Nazi uniform. Musk has called it ‘the most fun AI in the world.’
Boxtown residents say they have been paying for the images with their health.”
Boxtown residents say they have been paying for the images with their health.”
From @cleanairmoms.bsky.social — MEMPHIS: “Boxtown has been fighting Musk’s AI supercomputer, set up at warp speed… ignores his unwitting new neighbors… residents have been inhaling dangerous fumes since the project started, with no warning.” www.momscleanairforce.org/xai-in-memph...
February 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
From @cleanairmoms.bsky.social — MEMPHIS: “Boxtown has been fighting Musk’s AI supercomputer, set up at warp speed… ignores his unwitting new neighbors… residents have been inhaling dangerous fumes since the project started, with no warning.” www.momscleanairforce.org/xai-in-memph...
WATCH: “HOW IS IT GOOD FOR MEMPHIS?”
Memphis Cap ED @keshaunpearson.bsky.social has questions about Elon Musk’s MEMPHIS-based Supercomputer XAI, which dropped into BOXTOWN with no community input and has locals very concerned about the impacts.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGgx-wX...
Memphis Cap ED @keshaunpearson.bsky.social has questions about Elon Musk’s MEMPHIS-based Supercomputer XAI, which dropped into BOXTOWN with no community input and has locals very concerned about the impacts.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGgx-wX...
February 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
WATCH: “HOW IS IT GOOD FOR MEMPHIS?”
Memphis Cap ED @keshaunpearson.bsky.social has questions about Elon Musk’s MEMPHIS-based Supercomputer XAI, which dropped into BOXTOWN with no community input and has locals very concerned about the impacts.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGgx-wX...
Memphis Cap ED @keshaunpearson.bsky.social has questions about Elon Musk’s MEMPHIS-based Supercomputer XAI, which dropped into BOXTOWN with no community input and has locals very concerned about the impacts.
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGgx-wX...
The immediate area surrounding the datacenter, known as Boxtown, is often cited as being 99% Black. It is a historic community founded by formerly enslaved people who used scraps from train boxcars to build their homes.
btw, regulators confirmed to us this morning that the 19 new turbines (and the 27 already on site) are not part of an air permit granted in March, meaning xAI has more than 1 GW of unpermitted gas power at Colossus 2 right now
NEW: xAI appears to have added more than 500 MW (!) of unpermitted gas turbines to its Colossus 2 campus in a matter of weeks, according to internal emails between the company and regulators
May 13, 2026 at 5:31 PM
The immediate area surrounding the datacenter, known as Boxtown, is often cited as being 99% Black. It is a historic community founded by formerly enslaved people who used scraps from train boxcars to build their homes.
“None shall enter my fortress of solitude.”
Sebastian Von Floofyface is the emperor of Boxtown.
#catsofbluesky
#cats
#childlesscatlady
#MaineCoone
#catsinboxes
Sebastian Von Floofyface is the emperor of Boxtown.
#catsofbluesky
#cats
#childlesscatlady
#MaineCoone
#catsinboxes
June 12, 2025 at 2:14 AM
“None shall enter my fortress of solitude.”
Sebastian Von Floofyface is the emperor of Boxtown.
#catsofbluesky
#cats
#childlesscatlady
#MaineCoone
#catsinboxes
Sebastian Von Floofyface is the emperor of Boxtown.
#catsofbluesky
#cats
#childlesscatlady
#MaineCoone
#catsinboxes
MEMPHIS VS. MUSK: “This noxious stew in Boxtown & Memphis as a whole has a new destructive ingredient – the harmful emissions being spewed by Elon Musk’s XAI data center.” (From @cleanairmoms.bsky.social )
www.commercialappeal.com/story/opinio...
www.commercialappeal.com/story/opinio...
May 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
MEMPHIS VS. MUSK: “This noxious stew in Boxtown & Memphis as a whole has a new destructive ingredient – the harmful emissions being spewed by Elon Musk’s XAI data center.” (From @cleanairmoms.bsky.social )
www.commercialappeal.com/story/opinio...
www.commercialappeal.com/story/opinio...
Number of times Boxtown is mentioned in this essay: 0.
Opinion | The Flawed Environmental Case Against Data Centers
Our animosity toward data centers is really more about our anxieties about A.I.
www.nytimes.com
July 25, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Number of times Boxtown is mentioned in this essay: 0.
We’re already seeing the real-world impact. In South Memphis, particularly in Boxtown, a neighborhood long burdened by industrial pollution, residents are now facing a new threat: up to 35 unpermitted methane gas turbines powering xAI’s “Colossus” supercomputer.
July 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We’re already seeing the real-world impact. In South Memphis, particularly in Boxtown, a neighborhood long burdened by industrial pollution, residents are now facing a new threat: up to 35 unpermitted methane gas turbines powering xAI’s “Colossus” supercomputer.
“Across the state line in Memphis, xAI’s Colossus 1 facility is located near Boxtown, a community founded by freedmen that remains a predominantly Black neighborhood.”
May 26, 2026 at 1:02 PM
“Across the state line in Memphis, xAI’s Colossus 1 facility is located near Boxtown, a community founded by freedmen that remains a predominantly Black neighborhood.”
Community Scientist training
Saturday, August 16th
11:00 am
St. Paul’s Church of God in Christ
1716 E. Boxtown Rd.
Saturday, August 16th
11:00 am
St. Paul’s Church of God in Christ
1716 E. Boxtown Rd.
August 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Community Scientist training
Saturday, August 16th
11:00 am
St. Paul’s Church of God in Christ
1716 E. Boxtown Rd.
Saturday, August 16th
11:00 am
St. Paul’s Church of God in Christ
1716 E. Boxtown Rd.
Why do these celebrities just chomp at the bit to be clowns. I guess racism is bad to Kaepernick unless you live in Boxtown Tennessee near the AI data center.
Because here's the story. Kaepernick started targeting Black comic book creatives. He was at San Diego Comic Con last year in artist alley with his "engineer". When they ALL pushed back, he ended up at a Newark charter school fabulizemag.com/black-creati...
Black creatives say 'No' to Colin Kaepernick's AI-based comics platform
Fabulize Mag – Black comic book creatives react on social media to express their disdain with Kaepernick's AI-based comics, Lumi.
fabulizemag.com
August 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Why do these celebrities just chomp at the bit to be clowns. I guess racism is bad to Kaepernick unless you live in Boxtown Tennessee near the AI data center.
Poisoning Black folks in Boxtown so he can do misogyny with his robot buddy.
August 29, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Poisoning Black folks in Boxtown so he can do misogyny with his robot buddy.
Anthropic partnering with the Gates Foundation on health and economic mobility while also making a deal to use the Memphis xAI data center polluting Boxtown, every day is a winding road
May 14, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Anthropic partnering with the Gates Foundation on health and economic mobility while also making a deal to use the Memphis xAI data center polluting Boxtown, every day is a winding road
Vile muskrat continues actively poisoning the people of Memphis’ Boxtown neighborhood 😶🌫️ #ENDimpunity #WEthePeople #GOODtrouble #JusticeforALL #ENDoligarchy
#USDemocracy #ai #grok #chatbot #environment #health
AI skyrockets pollution. For instance, Elon Musk's illegally-constructed xAI data center (that powers X's Grok chatbot) sends toxic emissions into Boxtown, a Black neighborhood in Memphis. The facility's emissions can cause lung damage and cancer.
AI skyrockets pollution. For instance, Elon Musk's illegally-constructed xAI data center (that powers X's Grok chatbot) sends toxic emissions into Boxtown, a Black neighborhood in Memphis. The facility's emissions can cause lung damage and cancer.
35 gas turbines, no permits: Elon Musk’s dirty xAI secret - Climate and Capital Media
In Memphis, AI’s environmental impact is invisible, until you turn on the camera
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Vile muskrat continues actively poisoning the people of Memphis’ Boxtown neighborhood 😶🌫️ #ENDimpunity #WEthePeople #GOODtrouble #JusticeforALL #ENDoligarchy
They called Boxtown, Tennessee "the point of least resistance."
Valero Energy and Plains All-American Pipeline planned to run a dirty pipeline through a historic Black Memphis neighborhood. The residents said no — and won.
This is what power actually looks like.
Valero Energy and Plains All-American Pipeline planned to run a dirty pipeline through a historic Black Memphis neighborhood. The residents said no — and won.
This is what power actually looks like.
Good News: Small Groups Can Defeat Corporate Giants
Big Oil called called Boxtown, Tennessee "the point of least resistance." Boy, did Boxtown show them!
jimhightower.substack.com
June 4, 2026 at 4:19 PM
They called Boxtown, Tennessee "the point of least resistance."
Valero Energy and Plains All-American Pipeline planned to run a dirty pipeline through a historic Black Memphis neighborhood. The residents said no — and won.
This is what power actually looks like.
Valero Energy and Plains All-American Pipeline planned to run a dirty pipeline through a historic Black Memphis neighborhood. The residents said no — and won.
This is what power actually looks like.
Teach the connections between AI and environmental racism: "xAI’s Memphis campus is located in a predominantly Black community known as Boxtown which has been historically burdened with industrial projects that cause pollution."
Elon Musk’s xAI gas turbines get official approval, even as civil rights groups prepare to sue over alleged Clean Air Act violations. www.wired.com/story/xai-da...
Despite Protests, Elon Musk Secures Air Permit for xAI
Elon Musk’s xAI gas turbines get official approval, even as civil rights groups prepare to sue over alleged Clean Air Act violations.
www.wired.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Teach the connections between AI and environmental racism: "xAI’s Memphis campus is located in a predominantly Black community known as Boxtown which has been historically burdened with industrial projects that cause pollution."
important to note that it's colossus 1 that's in boxtown, not colossus 2 — colossus 2 is about a 20 minute drive over the border in mississippi
The immediate area surrounding the datacenter, known as Boxtown, is often cited as being 99% Black. It is a historic community founded by formerly enslaved people who used scraps from train boxcars to build their homes.
btw, regulators confirmed to us this morning that the 19 new turbines (and the 27 already on site) are not part of an air permit granted in March, meaning xAI has more than 1 GW of unpermitted gas power at Colossus 2 right now
May 13, 2026 at 5:37 PM
important to note that it's colossus 1 that's in boxtown, not colossus 2 — colossus 2 is about a 20 minute drive over the border in mississippi
Book recommendation if you want a peek at how data centers are a modern iteration on the toxic industrial redlining that's been happening for generations: "End Times Fascism", which has a chapter dedicated to the xai facility near Boxtown, TN
September 28, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Book recommendation if you want a peek at how data centers are a modern iteration on the toxic industrial redlining that's been happening for generations: "End Times Fascism", which has a chapter dedicated to the xai facility near Boxtown, TN
Good time to revisit @nasser.wiki:
Progress Shouldn’t Poison Black Communities
In South Memphis, Tennessee, a neighborhood called Boxtown is paying the price for the AI revolution with every breath, writes Nasser Eledroos.
www.techpolicy.press
July 14, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Good time to revisit @nasser.wiki:
The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"
May 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"