The Trump administration is helping one of Elon Musk’s companies fight a civil rights lawsuit that alleges it is illegally running dozens of natural gas turbines to power a $20 billion data center in Mississippi.

The US Justice Department intervened to back xAI in the NAACP's pollution suit, arguing Musk's gas-burning data centre is vital to military operations.

The DOJ intervened in the NAACP's lawsuit against xAI, arguing its unpermitted gas turbines powering the Colossus 2 data center support classified Pentagon