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The letter comes as Americans are increasingly concerned about the rapid pace of AI data center construction across the country.\n\n“Communities across the nation are frustrated and angry about the pace of giant data centers being constructed in their back yards,” Ranking Member Pallone wrote in his letter to Musk. “Americans are concerned about what data centers and Big Tech’s push for more AI means for their communities, jobs, property values, and future. Electricity prices are skyrocketing, the electric grid is strained, our clean air and water are being polluted, and noise is wearing on communities’ health and patience.”\n\nToday’s letter comes after Democratic Committee staff have met with companies over the last four months regarding their AI and data center strategies, energy consumption, environmental impacts, and commitments to local communities. 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This is an unacceptable trade-off.”\n\nSpaceXAI’s Colossus 1 data center is powered by 35 gas-powered turbines, making the site the third-largest source of ozone-causing pollution in Shelby County, Tennessee – ahead of a nearby refinery and power plant – all without any air permits or protections, in violation of the Clean Air Act.\n\nJust five miles away, on the other side of the border in Mississippi, SpaceXAI has trucked in at least 60 gas-powered turbines for its Colossus 2 data center – all of which are also operating without air permits or safeguards. According to one analysis, this makes the Colossus 2 turbines the largest source of pollution in the Memphis area – five times as polluting as the next largest source, the Memphis airport – and the largest emitter of nitrogen oxide in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Arkansas.\n\n“The Trump Administration has essentially claimed that it alone decides whether SpaceXAI and other companies get a free pass to pollute unimpeded,” Pallone continued in his letter to Musk. “But just because the Trump Administration will bend over backward to give tech companies free rein over community air, water, and land does not make your actions legal.”\n\nOf all the companies involved in the meetings with Committee staff, SpaceXAI has been the least willing to answer questions. 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