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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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Us & Them: 2025 — Changing Definitions, Upending Institutions

For some Americans, this year’s political earthquakes hit close to home. Trey Kay reflects on federal budget cuts, the elimination of programs and agencies and the resulting layoffs of hundreds of thousands of workers. 2025 was also a year highlighting escalated immigration enforcement, and the deployment of National Guard troops in U.S. cities. One of those missions resulted in the tragic loss of a West Virginia National Guard soldier. On this end-of-year episode of Us & Them, we examine how today’s culture-war battles are reshaping the nation’s foundation.

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Postal Unions Warn Privatizing Mail Industry Could Hurt Rural Communities

Picket signs and posters in hand, dozens gathered outside Charleston’s main post office last week to sound the alarm over looming postal job cuts and a move toward privatizing domestic mail services.

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