法官驳回特朗普关于 EPA 可撤销数据中心污染诉讼的主张，xAI 诉讼继续
Judge rejects Trump’s wild claim EPA can dismiss data center pollution lawsuits
法官驳回特朗普的干预主张，其声称 EPA 有权随意撤销《清洁空气法》诉讼，xAI（现称 SpaceXAI）因孟菲斯 Colossus 数据中心使用无许可燃气轮机而面临的 NAACP 诉讼将继续。NAACP 要求 xAI 采用最佳可用污染控制技术，并请求按每项违规每天最高 $124,426 处以罚款，称燃气轮机可能大幅加剧附近以黑人社区为主的脆弱街区的污染。
Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI is stuck facing a lawsuit over alleged data center pollution after Donald Trump failed to convince a judge that his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has complete control over all Clean Air Act lawsuits and can dismiss any suit at whim.
Soon after unpermitted gas turbines were discovered powering Musk’s giant Colossus data center in Memphis, Tennessee, the NAACP sued. Its lawsuit sought an injunction requiring xAI (which, following a merger, is known now as SpaceXAI) to use the best available pollution control technology when operating the turbines and ordering penalties up to $124,426 per day per violation. Without such remedies, the turbines risked drastically spiking pollution in already vulnerable neighborhoods housing predominantly Black communities nearby, the NAACP argued.
To block the lawsuit, Trump tried to intervene, arguing that the EPA had the power to unilaterally dismiss lawsuits any time the president decides against enforcing the Clean Air Act. According to Trump, it would supposedly “not serve the public interest” if citizens were allowed to seek massive civil penalties to punish polluting AI firms that were trying to get data centers operational as fast as possible to support Trump’s AI Action Plan.
来源：Ars Technica：AI · arstechnica.com