The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a memorandum in response to NAACP’s lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI (now SpaceX) Colossus 2 data center. According to Wired, the federal government, through the DOJ, said that stopping the natural gas turbines needed to run the xAI data center “threatens American national, economic, and energy security by seeking to shut off the power supply for artificial-intelligence innovation that supports the Department of War’s military operations.” It further said that Grok is one of only four AI models the military and security agencies use to “support mission-critical operations across Secret and Top-Secret classified networks.”
Due to those purported national security interests, DOJ lawyers have joined xAI and the state of Missisippi in requesting that the lawsuit be dismissed.
