Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 data center installed 59 natural gas turbines without permission, report claims — thousands of tons of pollutants reportedly impact black communities in Mississippi already suffering from elevated lung disease rates
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Estimates suggest that about half of the unpermitted turbines generate 2,500 tons of NOx, 4,000 tons of CO, and 22 tons of formaldehyde every year.
  • pivot_root@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    It could be strategic. Pollute the environment in poor communities that can’t afford to fight it until it drives down property value, then buy the property and use it to generate even more profit.

    • Eheran@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 month ago

      But the pollution they create is pretty much only CO2? So climate issue but not locally like NOx, SO2 or particulates.

        • Eheran@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 month ago

          Okay, noise is a local issue. But much? I don’t think their emissions matter locally. Let alone so much that it drives down property values.