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xAI is buying out homeowners who promise not to sue over data center noise

A photo of xAI’s Southaven, Mississippi data center
xAI’s Southaven, Mississippi data center. | Photo by Brandon Dill / AFP via Getty Images

A subsidiary of Elon Musk's xAI is offering to buy up homes in a Mississippi neighborhood, as long as residents don't join a lawsuit targeting the company's nearby data center and power plant, according to a report from The Guardian. A realtor going door-to-door in the Southaven neighborhood reportedly told one resident that xAI plans to purchase 418 homes, adding that 18 homeowners already have plans to sell. People who rent homes in the area report they're already being forced out, with 60 days' notice after their landlords agreed to sell.

A recent report from the Mississippi Free Press includes a letter received by several households rec …

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Sure, let’s smoosh SpaceX and Tesla together, who cares

Elon Musk with money.
Mars not depicted. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images

Oh sure, SpaceX's credit risk is pretty high because it's about to borrow another $40 billion to spend on Nvidia chips, but who cares about that? SpaceX and Tesla have formed special committees to discuss a merger!

The degree to which you find this merger compelling likely has to do with the degree to which you believe Elon Musk about wanting to go to Mars, or "spread the light of consciousness," as he put it in this week's SpaceX earnings call (and earlier S-1). Now, a reasonably informed person knows that we don't have the technology - or, frankly, even the raw information to build the technology - in order to support human life in space. …

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