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Noise Pollution From Data Centers Is Coming. The Gas-powered xAI Model Is Spreading

Elon Musk’s xAI runs one of the nation’s largest data centers in Memphis. It’s powered by about 60 gas turbines that emit a loud, unsettling noise.

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Unchecked Data Center Noise Pollution, This West Virginia Morning

Noise pollution has reached dangerous levels for residents living near the Memphis-Mississippi border. That’s the home of Elon Musk’s X-AI data center campus that runs Grok, the AI chatbot for the social platform X, formerly known as Twitter. For the Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, WPLN’s Caroline Eggers reports on what’s becoming an emerging model of data center – and unchecked noise pollution.

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Volunteers Needed For Annual Kanawha River Cleanup

The state is looking for volunteers for an annual cleanup day for the Kanawha River.

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Mason County Data Center Reportedly Nets Muli-Billion Dollar Client

Anthropic, creator of Claude AI, has agreed to spend $45 billion over six years for computing capacity at the Monarch Compute Campus north of Point Pleasant.

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