Analysis of the air quality data available for southwest Memphis finds that pollution has long been quite bad, but the turbines powering an xAI data center have not made it much worse.
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Chancellor's Professor in Engineering, Climate Change and Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee
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Research Associate Professor in Toxicology, University of Montana
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Research Associate, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
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Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge
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Professor, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Public Health, University of Memphis
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Professor of Environmental Health, University of Memphis
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Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health, University of Memphis