The Southern Environmental Law Center is a nonprofit legal advocacy organization that has filed litigation and provided legal analysis on environmental matters affecting Texas datacenters, including water usage and air quality issues.
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225 Interconnection Requests, One Filter: ERCOT Sorts Real From Paper
Gov. Mississippi's environmental agency classified the turbines as exempt "mobile" sources in March; the NAACP, Earthjustice, and the Southern Environmental Law Center are challenging that in court.
The risk: off-grid development sidesteps grid reliability obligations, and permitting challenges are already materializing, as xAI's Memphis installations face Clean Air Act challenges from the Southern Environmental Law Center.
Attorney Ryan Anderson of the Southern Environmental Law Center argued that building a substation "solves transmission logistics, not the underlying problem" of raw power and water consumption.