xAI subsidiary offers Southaven residents to buy their homes in exchange for dropping claims in a noise lawsuit
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Growth in compute capacity for SI is pressing against neighboring homes: the company is settling a noise dispute by buying housing from those who give up their claims.
According to the Guardian and the Mississippi Free Press (as relayed by The Verge), an xAI unit, MZX, sent letters to residents of the neighbourhood: the company offers to buy property in exchange for a release of claims, including those in the Haley lawsuit over noise from the power plant at the data center; MZX denies all allegations. A realtor, in a recording the Guardian heard, named a target of 418 homes, 18 of whose owners have already agreed. According to the realtor and the mayor, the homes will house xAI employees. Its three data centers appeared in Southaven and neighbouring Memphis within two years, and the power plant runs on 69 temporary gas turbines. xAI did not answer the Guardian's questions about the figures; the company has previously said it intends to be a "good neighbor."
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