It's nice to see Elon following in his father's footsteps of hurting black people in an effort to get even more needlessly rich. Honestly though, somebody should take Elon back to South Africa and hurl him down a mineshaft.
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2026
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It's shocking that they just seem to sit out there in the open. Afaik they are very delicate and fragile machines.
Would be a shame if something hapens to those…
What would happen if I by accident fly my drone into those fans?
I hope Elon dies and I hope it's painful; dying would be the first positive thing he ever contributed to humanity
Shoot him into space on one of his or Bezos' rockets. Watch him explode as a result of the very thing he tried to accomplish.
It needs to die ugly. All the musk children need to die or be sterilized. Everything it cares about needs to end, and be thrown into wherever we decide to dispose of used nuclear fuel.
Can someone just shoot the bastard?
Or at least sabotage the facility?
Other methods are also acceptable.
Beaten to death with a used toilet brush.
Some polonium tee, hopefully
Did someone say Nowitschok?
Funny how the self proclaimed savior of humanity keeps treating regulations like optional DLC: If anyone else ran 59 gas turbines without permits they would be buried in fines. Billionaires call it innovation, everyone breathing nearby calls it another asthma attack waiting to happen.
Don't worry, it's only affecting a poor area. No billionairs are affected.
keeps treating regulations like optional DLC
He, like any shillionaire, sees people as NPCs.
That's why he was so enthusiastic to kill infants, children, teens and adults by cutting USAID.
If he's ever admitted to a hospital, I genuinely hope that he's left to suffer and rot.
I swear I read an article about this months ago... is it the same data center and they still didn't stop the gas turbines, or is this another one?
Either way: fuck Musk and fuck the government who laid the foundations for such atrocities.
No,that was portable generator trucks that were not 'installed'. This is new.
You're right!
So, from bad to worse...
No, no. Don't look at it like that. They didn't stop the trucks AFAIK.
It's bad and worse!
No, Grok has been classified by the DOJ as vital national security infrastructure and is not allowed to be shut down.
it's more turbines, not sure if it's the same site or another
These new ones erase the old ones. Do over!
This would be a great time for an injunction to force the data center to shut down all of those turbines until the matter has been resolved legally.
Of course you need to be able to pay for a lawyer who convinces a judge to pass that injunction.
House Republicans include a 10-year ban on US states regulating AI in ‘big, beautiful’ bill
We're at a point where we have to ask whether laws passed are legal.
A judge that Musk and Trump have bought? Or a real judge? Do you have any of those left?
I'm pretty sure that if a judge would grant that injunction there'd be one less a week later.
I will add this to the list of reasons I'm happy not to live in the USA, as soon as I manage to add new page to it.
I was landing in Memphis a few weeks ago, and you can see the literal cloud of pollution surrounding this thing. There's a distinct haze you can see centered on the thing.
JC, every other post on here is about data centers, Elon Musk or White House legislation. Can’t we talk about technology instead of US politics?
Feel free 😄
I fail to see the relevance of race on this context. Its like they want to pit us against each other but this is a class issue. Its us vs the oligarchs and they are presently winning
Musk comes from South African apartheid blood money. His grandfather moved to the country because he liked said apartheid, iirc.
The US also suffers from an abhorrent history and current climate of racism on top of its deeply ingrained classism.
Not sure how deliberate the choice was, but exploiting and hurting marginalized communities seems to be a honed skill of the Musk family (not counting his kids who disowned him ofc, especially his daughter)
Edit: Yep, I was right. From Wikipedia:
Haldeman's move to South Africa was motivated by support for apartheid, and he was a supporter of the ruling National Party of South Africa. Errol Musk said of his wife's family: "They were very fanatical in favor of apartheid... [Maye's] parents came to South Africa from Canada because they sympathised with the Afrikaner government."[23]
We're talking about America here. Everything is a race issue. Its almost apartheid.
I guess the turbines were build near a neighbourhood that mostly houses black people.
Yeah it's a class issue. Being white alone won't get you in their club. But they also really hate darker skinned people and go out of their way to be extra shitty to them.
The two things aren't exclusive of one another.
You mean like the CEOs of Microsoft and Google or?
They definitely don't hate people of Indian decsent as much as they hate african-americans. And a few successful people with darker skin does not indicate that the regular people are treated fairly?
I suspect its more to highlight musk's contribution to systemic racism and race-based inequality than to try and divide us by color lines. In an ideal world, racist shit like this should unite us even more through our shared disgust at how abhorent their behavior is.
I don't know how they are winning. I haven't given them any of my money.
They are winning if nobody makes them tear down such illegal constructions.