SpaceX committed today to removing all 69 unpermitted gas turbines at its Southaven, Mississippi data center, starting as early as August and finishing by July 2027. The turbines are replaced by a permitted 1.2 GW plant of 41 units, so capacity rises while a Clean Air Act suit over the past two years stays live.
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SpaceX said today it will pull all sixty nine gas turbines off its Colossus 2 data center site in Southaven, Mississippi. Read the calendar, not the headline. The first units leave in August, but the last one does not go until July twenty twenty seven. Those turbines have been running without an air permit. The company's argument is that they sit on shipping trailers, so they count as mobile equipment, not a stationary source. The N double A C P sued over that in April. The Justice Department stepped in on the company's side in June, citing energy security. So what actually changes here? The trailers get replaced by forty one permanent turbines Mississippi already approved, rated at one point two gigawatts. The fleet does not shrink. It gets a permit. And a court still has to decide whether the last two years were legal at all.