1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

Letter I am urgently requesting your intervention regarding the harmful environmental and public health impacts stemming from Elon Musk’s xAI data center operations in Memphis, Tennessee, as well as to address the harms caused by other current and potential new data centers across the United States. Despite serious concerns and growing evidence of: • Excessive water usage during a regional drought, • Air and/or noise pollution affecting local quality of life and health, • A lack of transparent environmental impact studies, and • State and local officials failing to act or hold the corporations accountable no meaningful regulatory action has been taken to protect residents or the environment. We are calling on you to: 1. Initiate or request a federal investigation by the EPA or Department of Justice into the environmental impact of xAI’s operations. 2. Hold a public Congressional hearing to examine how emerging tech infrastructure—such as AI data centers—are being built without appropriate environmental safeguards. 3. Push for greater federal oversight of large-scale AI and data infrastructure development, including environmental standards and community protections. We believe that no company—regardless of size or influence—should be allowed to profit at the expense of public health, clean air, water, or the long-term safety of American communities. We ask that you take swift and public action to hold xAI accountable and protect the people of Tennessee and your constituents potentially facing the same fate forced on us by corporations planning to further their agenda and development of these facilities.