
“Musk Is Scamming the City of Memphis”: Meet Two Brothers Fighting Colossus, Musk’s xAI Data Center
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- Apr 25, 2025
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PEARSON
: Yeah, I mean, Mayor Young’s idea that he’s going to give us tax money in place of our health and our lives is completely asinine, and it’s an insult to the people in this community. But it isn’t just Mary Young who is problematic. It’s Mayor Lee Harris of Shelby County, who has said nothing about this project since it started, and he was all praise and all happy-go-lucky about it, and now we can’t find him. He’s entirely invisible, despite the fact that the health department is under his purview. And so, he hasn’t come out with a statement saying that we need to protect our air, we need to protect our citizens, we need to protect our community. And that is giving license to Elon Musk and to xAI that they can pollute our community, they can hurt us, without any ramification.
But the people power that is rising up, the democracy that is being shown here by people of all constituencies, people all across our district, in District 86, but all across this city and this county, is showing that we are not going to yield to the anti-democratic, anti-constitutional actions of people. We are not going to yield our lives and our lungs to Elon Musk, to Paul Young, to Lee Harris, to Michelle Taylor. We are not yielding our lives for the profits of the richest man in the world.
This is ridiculous that the Greater Memphis Chamber and so many other people have literally decided that we can be sacrificed for the benefits of a data center and a supercomputer, and we not be included in the process, our voices not be heard. That isn’t the way that economic development is supposed to go. And if that is the way that economic development needs to go in our city, we don’t want it. It’s an insult to the people in Boxtown, in Westwood, in West Junction, in Walker Homes, in Coro Lake that we are being treated this way, and that the people who have a responsibility and an obligation to do something about it are refusing to do so.
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