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USS_Dauntless

(145 posts)
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 02:55 PM 7 hrs ago

Nearby Residents Say Elon Musk's Gigantic Supercomputer Is Making Them Sick

"We have to put our lungs up in exchange for profit."

https://futurism.com/future-society/elon-musk-colossus-memphis

Elon Musk’s pet AI chatbot, Grok, is a world-beater when it comes to generating vile racist remarks on an enormous scale. Who can forget over the summer when, unprompted, Grok dubbed itself “MechaHitler,” and started “recommending a second Holocaust”?

Sadly, all that digital hate speech comes at a high price: the health of those unfortunate souls who live next to the data center that makes Grok possible.

Located in the Memphis neighborhood of Boxtown, Tennessee, xAI’s “Colossus supercomputer” data center has been mired in controversy ever since its inception, pumping noxious gasses into the air and drying out local faucets. For Musk, it’s the key piece of infrastructure behind AI ambitions — the facility keeping him in the AI race with other tech magnates like Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg.

https://futurism.com/future-society/elon-musk-colossus-memphis
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Nearby Residents Say Elon Musk's Gigantic Supercomputer Is Making Them Sick (Original Post) USS_Dauntless 7 hrs ago OP
And he do not care.................... Lovie777 7 hrs ago #1
"Colossus" ? Isn't that twisting the tiger's tail a little ? eppur_se_muova 6 hrs ago #2

eppur_se_muova

(40,654 posts)
2. "Colossus" ? Isn't that twisting the tiger's tail a little ?
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 03:48 PM
6 hrs ago
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(from "Colossus: The Forbin Project", in which a pair of computers -- one US, one Russian -- take over all missile defenses, then the world)
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