在唐纳德·特朗普未能说服法官认定其环境保护局（EPA）对所有《清洁空气法》诉讼拥有完全控制权、可随意驳回任何诉讼后，埃隆·马斯克的SpaceXAI仍面临一起涉嫌数据中心污染的诉讼。
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 has complete control over all Clean Air Act lawsuits and can dismiss any suit at whim.
在田纳西州孟菲斯市马斯克巨型“科洛萨斯”数据中心被发现使用无许可燃气轮机供电后不久，美国全国有色人种协进会（NAACP）提起诉讼。该诉讼寻求禁令，要求xAI（合并后现称SpaceXAI）在运行轮机时使用最佳可行污染控制技术，并处以每项违规每天高达124,426美元的罚款。NAACP辩称，若无此类补救措施，轮机可能导致附近以黑人社区为主、本已脆弱的社区污染大幅飙升。
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.
为阻止该诉讼，特朗普试图介入，辩称EPA有权在总统决定不执行《清洁空气法》时单方面驳回诉讼。特朗普声称，如果允许公民寻求巨额民事罚款以惩罚试图尽快让数据中心投入运营、以支持特朗普“AI行动计划”的污染AI公司，将所谓“不符合公共利益”。
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.