A local health department in Memphis has granted Elon Musk’s xAI data center an air permit to continue operating the gas turbines that power the company’s Grok chatbot. The permit comes amid widespread community opposition and a looming lawsuit alleging the company violated the Clean Air Act. The Shelby County Health Department released an air permit for the xAI project Wednesday, after receiving hundreds of public comments. That speed was due in part to the mobile gas turbines the company quickly began installing at the campus, the site of a former manufacturing facility. Last month, the NAACP and the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) announced that they intended to sue xAI for allegedly violating the Clean Air Act.