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This Week in Cleantech is a weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in clean energy and climate featuring Paul Gerke of Factor This and Tigercomm’s Mike Casey. This week’s episode features special guest Molly Taft from WIRED, who discusses Elon Musk’s AI company xAI’s decision to add 19 natural gas turbines to its Colossus 2 data center in Southaven, Mississippi. This week’s “Cleanteche...
The narrative presented highlights a fundamental tension between rapid technological scaling and regulatory/social accountability in the clean energy sector. The xAI example demonstrates a pattern where corporate pursuit of massive infrastructure capacity (generating power) proceeds even when facing significant public health and environmental concerns, utilizing legal exemptions (portable turbines) to manage liability. This suggests that the speed of technological adoption often outpaces the est...