This headline caught my attention, since I’m always going to be very interested in anything to do with x.ai:
At first blush, it makes sense, because they’re powering it with diesel generators, which are famously dirty.
I was curious, though, to see if the area around the Colossus was at India-levels of nastiness and pollution, so I fired up an air quality map and honed in on the ZIP code in Tennessee where it is based. The result? An air quality level safely in the green.
Nuclear power, for instance, would be cleaner, but this sensationalist headline doesn’t seem to align with reality. No one’s choking on anything.
