Due to environmental pollution, Musk SpaceXAI announced that the data center will gradually dismantle 69 mobile turbine generators

IT House reported on August 2 that according to Tom's Hardware, Musk's SpaceXAI company announced that the mobile power generation equipment in its Colossus data center will be gradually dismantled starting in August this year. SpaceXAI stated that these 69 (IT Home Note: There were previous media reports as 59 units, the number announced by SpaceXAI was 69 units) temporary mobile turbines that had previously faced lawsuits for allegedly causing pollution, and they will be completely removed by July 2027. This means that it took SpaceXAI nearly a year to completely remove these trailer-mounted generators from the factory. Meanwhile, SpaceXAI is building a new power plant with a capacity of 1.2GW, containing 41 permanent turbines, which were officially approved in a Clean Air Act permit awarded to SpaceXAI in March 2026. SpaceXAI previously set one of the fastest data center deployment records in history, completing the installation and configuration of 100,000 NVIDIA H200 graphics processors in just 19 days. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has said that such projects typically take four years or more. Musk was able to do this because he directly introduced his own power supply instead of waiting for the public power grid to be connected. This was regarded as a very novel initiative at the time. Now some data center operators, including OpenAI, are following Musk's lead and deploying their own turbine generators to power servers, instead of being tied to external power providers. However, residents of communities surrounding the Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 data centers have been complaining about the environmental pollution caused by these mobile turbines. They pointed out that the turbines lacked the licenses required to operate legally, while the company argued that the mobile and temporary nature of the equipment warranted an exemption. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency made clear earlier this year that the devices are not exempt