法官驳回特朗普关于 EPA 可撤销数据中心污染诉讼的主张
Judge rejects Trump’s wild claim EPA can dismiss data center pollution lawsuits
美国一名法官驳回了特朗普政府的主张，即 EPA 有权随时撤销《清洁空气法》诉讼，SpaceXAI 在孟菲斯 Colossus 数据中心涉嫌污染一案将继续审理。NAACP 此前起诉称，该数据中心使用未经许可的燃气轮机，要求其采用最佳可用污染控制技术，并按每项违规每日最高 124,426 美元处以罚款。特朗普曾试图介入阻止诉讼，称允许公民寻求巨额民事罚款不符合公共利益。
Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI is stuck facing a lawsuit over alleged data center pollution after Donald Trump failed to convince a judge that his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has complete control over all Clean Air Act lawsuits and can dismiss any suit at whim.
Soon after unpermitted gas turbines were discovered powering Musk’s giant Colossus data center in Memphis, Tennessee, the NAACP sued. Its lawsuit sought an injunction requiring xAI (which, following a merger, is known now as SpaceXAI) to use the best available pollution control technology when operating the turbines and ordering penalties up to $124,426 per day per violation. Without such remedies, the turbines risked drastically spiking pollution in already vulnerable neighborhoods housing predominantly Black communities nearby, the NAACP argued.
To block the lawsuit, Trump tried to intervene, arguing that the EPA had the power to unilaterally dismiss lawsuits any time the president decides against enforcing the Clean Air Act. According to Trump, it would supposedly “not serve the public interest” if citizens were allowed to seek massive civil penalties to punish polluting AI firms that were trying to get data centers operational as fast as possible to support Trump’s AI Action Plan.
来源：Ars Technica · AI · arstechnica.com