Living next to a jet engine isn’t most people’s idea of a good neighbor. But for residents near Southaven, Mississippi, that’s essentially become daily life, according to a new federal class-action lawsuit targeting Elon Musk’s xAI and its subsidiary MZX Tech.
The suit, filed on June 9 in US District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, represents an estimated class of over 10,000 residents. Their complaint is straightforward: the gas-turbine power plant supplying energy to xAI’s Colossus data centers is producing nonstop noise that’s ruining their health and tanking their property values.
What’s making all the noise
The Southaven facility runs 27 gas-fired turbines. In English: imagine nearly three dozen industrial-grade engines running simultaneously, all day, every day, to feed the enormous power appetite of one of the world’s most ambitious AI computing clusters.
The Colossus data-center cluster itself sits across state lines in South Memphis. But the power plant feeding it landed in Southaven, and local residents are the ones absorbing the consequences.
