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Elon Musk's data center business, SpaceXSI, is seeking to purchase 418 homes in the Colonial Hills neighborhood of Southaven, Mississippi. According to The Guardian, real estate agents have visited residents door to door offering buyout deals. However, sales are contingent on homeowners agreeing not to join an ongoing class-action lawsuit concerning noise pollution generated by the gas turbines powering nearby AI data centers. [1][2]
The neighborhood sits roughly half a mile from a power plant planned to supply the company's facilities. MZX, the SpaceXSI subsidiary managing the Colossus II site, told residents through an open letter that it needs property for business operations. Southaven Mayor Darren Musselwhite stated the homes would accommodate expanding staff rather than form a company town, while SpaceXSI has pledged to remove unpermitted turbines within a year as a 1.2-gigawatt plant comes online. [2]
Residents have reported persistent, sleep-disrupting industrial noise that resembles an airplane engine, prompting legal action. While SpaceXSI denies the claims and reports that it has adjusted power output and erected sound-dampening walls, city monitoring has not registered readings above the local 70-decibel limit. [2]
Real estate agents have been going door to door in the Colonial Hills neighborhood of Southaven, Mississippi, on behalf of the tech giant, offering to buy residents' homes if they don't join the ongoing lawsuit, writes The Guardian.
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The properties will supposedly house SpaceXSI staff while also giving a chance to those who don't want to live near the data center to sell their homes.
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