SpaceXAI gives 69 turbines another year

SpaceXAI says all 69 temporary gas turbines powering its Southaven, Mississippi, AI facility will remain on a staged retirement schedule through July 2027, with removals beginning in August 2026. The company’s agreed-order update says a permitted 1.2-gigawatt plant with 41 permanent turbines will replace them; TechCrunch reports that the temporary fleet faces a Clean Air Act lawsuit. For operators tracking how Colossus turns compute into a vertical stack, the timetable shows that rapid AI capacity still creates a long environmental-compliance tail after the servers arrive.