Adrian Sainz, Author at The Rapid City Post

FILE = The xAI data center is seen, May 7, 2025, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, file)

NAACP, environmental group notify Elon Musk’s xAI company of intent to sue over facility pollution

June 17, 2025

The NAACP and an environmental group say they intend to sue Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI over concerns about air pollution generated by a supercomputer near predominantly Black communities in Memphis. The groups on Tuesday accused xAI of pushing ahead to operate gas turbines in violation of the Clean Air Act. The turbines release air pollution near predominantly Black communities. Musk’s xAI says it is boosting the city’s economy by investing billions of dollars in the data center, paying millions in local taxes and creating hundreds of jobs. It also promises emission-reduction technology and is spending $35 million to build a power substation and $80 million for a water recycling plant.

FILE - A screen at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans honors Tyre Nichols before an NBA basketball game between the Pelicans and Wizards, Jan. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton, File)

Federal judge recuses himself days before sentencing Memphis officers accused in Tyre Nichols’ death

June 13, 2025

The judge presiding over the federal case against five former Memphis police officers convicted in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols has recused himself from further proceedings, just days before four of them were scheduled to be sentenced. U.S. District Judge Mark S. Norris issued a brief order Friday saying he has recused himself and returned the case to the court clerk for reassignment. He provided no further explanation. Four of the five officers convicted in the January 2023 beating that led to Nichols’ death are scheduled to be sentenced next week and the fifth on June 23.

FILE - Firefighters douse the historic Clayborn Temple, a landmark from the civil rights movement with ties to Martin Luther King Jr., with water after it caught fire, April 28, 2025, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Karen Pulfer Focht, File)

Fire at historic Black church in Memphis was intentionally set, investigators say

May 21, 2025

Investigators in Tennessee say a fire that severely damaged a historic Black church that served as the headquarters for a 1968 sanitation workers’ strike which brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis was intentionally set. The Memphis Fire Department said Wednesday that the fire at Clayborn Temple was set in the downtown church’s interior. Flames engulfed the building in the early morning hours of April 28. It was undergoing a yearslong renovation at the time. Clayborn Temple hosted nightly meetings during the 1968 sanitation workers’ strike. King came to support the workers that year and was assassinated in the city April 4.

Adrian Sainz.

NAACP, environmental group notify Elon Musk’s xAI company of intent to sue over facility pollution

Federal judge recuses himself days before sentencing Memphis officers accused in Tyre Nichols’ death

Fire at historic Black church in Memphis was intentionally set, investigators say

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