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Jason Haley looks on near one of the xAI datacenters close to his home in Southaven, Mississippi, on 25 October 2026. Jason Haley looks on near one of the xAI datacenters close to his home in Southaven, Mississippi, on 25 October 2026. 'Elonville': US residents say Musk's xAI offered to buy homes if they don't sue over datacenter noise People in a Mississippi neighborhood, many of whom dislike a nearby power plant central to Elon Musk's artificial intelligence ambitions, have received a stark offer - to sell their houses to his company and make way. Real estate agents have been going door to door in Southaven, Mississippi, on behalf of xAI, Musk's AI company that was folded into the SpaceX entity in February, touting a deal to purchase houses as long as the owners agree to not join a lawsuit against the company over the power plant's noise. This plan could potentially swallow up almost the entire neighborhood of Colonial Hills, on the western flank of Southaven.

Nature lover Ashley Schmidt no longer spends much time in her garden, in the Dallas suburb of North Garland. She's also given up on cycling to the local parks where she previously enjoyed taking close-up photos of the bugs, lizards and toads. It's all because she can't stand the sound of the delivery drones that fly overhead, depositing her neighbours' online orders. It triggers my fight or flight response, says the 44-year-old administrative assistant. You can hear the drones on approach and you can hear them inside your home when they pass directly overhead and then you hear them as they leave, she says.

Why are data centres such a big deal in Scotland? Every time you ask ChatGPT a question, read a Google summary or make an online bank payment, a data centre is working behind the scenes. Now Scotland is part of a global race to build many more of them - on a massive scale. The explosion in artificial intelligence (AI) over the past few years has seen tech firms scrambling to build new hyperscale data centres, including some which would rank among the biggest in the world. Plans are in place to build at least 23 giant AI-powered data centres.

All those container ships and fishing vessels are only generating noise in the first place because there's a consumer downstream paying them to do so. By simply opting to purchase more goods locally, Fournet notes, everyday people can play at least a small part in reducing their overall contribution to ocean noise. In other words, a farmer's market apple might not just taste better; it's better for whales too. "In this case, sure, humans are the problem," Fournet adds. "Humans in this case are also the solution. We created this problem, but we do have the capacity to fix it."

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