DOJ says xAI's Grok 'vital' to national security in NAACP turbine suit
The Justice Department asked a federal judge Monday to dismiss an NAACP lawsuit over xAI’s polluting gas turbines, arguing the turbines and xAI’s Grok chatbot are 'vital' to national security. DOJ lawyers told the court the turbines power the data center running Grok and that Grok supports military operations under a Pentagon contract. The NAACP suit challenges pollution and local health impacts from the turbines, and DOJ’s filing seeks to block that environmental claim by invoking national security. If the court accepts the government’s argument, private tech infrastructure could gain broad protection from environmental lawsuits, raising new questions about accountability and community health.
NEW: the US government intervened Monday on behalf of xAI in a lawsuit over its gas turbines, claiming that the company needs to run the turbines in order to power Grok, which is "vital" for national security lots of wild stuff in the filing:
Well, That Was Spooky72Good ol “vital for national security” clause
AlmostFurious49Maybe we need to put a bunch of gas turbines near Trump’s golf courses.
Joe Bauer43Cool. Looking forward to nationalizing SpaceX for national security.
jack31so cool this is real life
Andrew Coleman Francis31Vital for the Administration's strategic CSAM reserve.
Themistocles Wall🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️20the benefits of el neon’s $500 million bet to put a diseased bigoted rapist in the White House continue to accrue
JT Jag (Support Unions)12Label Elon Musk and his entire catalogue of corporations as supply chain risks and fully sever their government funding the moment a Democrat takes Presidential office, many people are saying this
Kate✨10So the pile of flaming garbage creating deepfakes and CSAM is vital to national security? That says a lot.
5thgenfljane.bsky.social6I have come to not believe this government.
Greenb3ar4Be careful, a lot of people on this website will tell you this is actually “Glonzo”
Michael Love3This would have worked better a year ago before DOJ lawyers managed to piss off almost every judge in America
Lewis Edwards3All of the intelligence in DC is artificial these days.
Kim Masters3And they don’t even have the decency to be embarrassed.
Brian Wilcox3MechaHitler is essential to national security?
digitaldesert.bsky.social2Oh horseshit, make them document it. I’ll bet they can’t and pull a “Trust us, bro.”
The US must end its illegal war of aggression against Iran2So the argument is that need the AI to pick bombing targets in Iran? Obeying AI targeting systems, the US has bombed a public park in Tehran because it was called Police Park. www.tehrantimes.com/news/524548/...
stoopcat21) in-kind payback for the millions Musk donated 2) making sure to keep him on side 3) the people around Trump like Musk or find him useful 4) gotta protect the stock market
Skeptik2Musk/Grok cannot use all their data center output, and are leasing capacity out to other companies. So much BS
instaminta.bsky.social2It is vital that Grok keep producing sexually explicit celebrity deepfakes. Our national security depends on it.
maude squad2Wasn’t vital a few years ago
El condor pasa2What is grok doing behind the scenes?
It's clear that a lot of anti-AI people want to make Elon Musk the posterchild of the AI industry to try to demonize it as a whole. Grok is not a successful product. No one uses it for serious work. xAI had to be rolled into highly profitable SpaceX to stay afloat.
Thorne 🌸74Grok is best understood as an ideological vanity project. Elon wanted AI that would propagate his reactionary worldview after getting angry that OpenAI's models were espousing left-wing politics. This goal was at the expense of building a competitively useful tool.
Dustin Moskovitz17SpaceX is not profitable, it just has a lot of investor money.
Jillian9you are dealing with people who literally cannot understand that models are different in meaningful ways
rachelg is @cachecrashmusic5The tragedy is that loud, uneducated people, often determine the narrative See crypto mining
Randi Lee Harper5grok had such stupid smol model problems. the mode collapse/repetition bias was crazy in grok 4.1. i don't understand how they had that many resources and that much infrastructure and their shit was acting like a 2025 12B.
Ruo Shui3"highly profitable" might be a relative term here...
