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Elon Musk\u2019s Colossus data centers that sit near the border between Tennessee and Mississippi will finally be removed starting this month. According to the company, the 69 temporary mobile turbines, which have been the subject of a lawsuit that claims they have been causing pollution, are going to be completely removed by July 2027, meaning it will take the company 12 months to withdraw the trailer-mounted generators from its premises. This may sound confusing, as they\u2019re \u201cportable\u201d generators, after all, but it seems that SpaceXAI is removing them in phases as its 1.2GW power plant slowly comes online.<\/p>\n
SpaceXAI achieved one of the fastest data center deployments ever after it set up 100,000 Nvidia H200 GPUs in 19 days \u2014 something that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said usually takes four years or more. Musk achieved this by bringing in his own power instead of waiting to get connected to the grid, which was considered a novel idea at that time. Today, a few data center operators, like OpenAI, are following Musk\u2019s footsteps and deploying their own turbines to power their servers without relying on other providers.<\/p>\n
But even though the idea feels innovative, the community surrounding the Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 data centers have been complaining about the pollution that these mobile turbines bring. They say that these turbines didn\u2019t have the required permits to operate, although the company argued that the mobile and temporary nature of these units exempt them. The EPA said earlier this year that these units aren\u2019t exempt from permits, but SpaceXAI continued to operate them anyway. It has even got to the point that the NAACP filed a case over these unpermitted turbines, although the DOJ weighed in, saying that removing them would put national security at risk as Colossus 2 \u201csupports mission-critical operations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Latest Videos From<\/span>Tom’s Hardware<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Despite that, it seems that SpaceXAI has finally settled into an agreement with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality. It\u2019s if the 1.2GW power plant replacing these mobile turbines is the same that Musk is importing from overseas, but the important part is that it\u2019s approved under a Clean Air Act permit. Aside from that, the company also said that it\u2019s equipping all its mobile turbines with \u201cadvanced emission control technologies,\u201d which should reduce the environmental impact of its power sources.<\/p>\n \n