The Trump administration's Justice Department has moved to shield Elon Musk's xAI from a civil rights lawsuit, asking a federal court to keep the company's unpermitted gas turbines running beside majority-Black neighbourhoods in north Mississippi.
The Department of Justice filed on 15 June 2026 to intervene in a Clean Air Act case brought by the NAACP, then asked the court to throw it out. Government lawyers argued that cutting power to the turbines would harm national security because they feed Grok, the artificial intelligence model the Pentagon says it now depends on.
