Elon Musk's data centers are pushing out a family that's owned land since "before people of color were allowed to"

Key Points:

• Krystal Polk's family has owned a 2-acre property in Southaven, Mississippi, for four generations, living a simple life off the land despite historical racial challenges, including KKK threats.
• The recent construction of a noisy power plant powering Elon Musk's SpaceXAI data centers across the street has forced Polk's family to leave their home due to constant noise and health concerns related to air pollution.
• Local residents, including Polk, have formed the Safe and Sound Coalition, which has gathered over 1,400 signatures in a petition to shut down the plant, citing noise and environmental health hazards disproportionately affecting Black communities.
• SpaceXAI is investing in noise mitigation technologies and has an agreement with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality to replace temporary turbines with permanent ones, but lawsuits from the NAACP and others allege significant harmful pollution emissions.
• Polk has been pressured by a real estate firm to sell her family land but refuses, honoring her father's wish to keep the property despite uncertainty about its future amid the expanding SpaceXAI developments.