Those stacks are not xAI. WREG used a generic industrial photo on a story about Memphis City Council voting today on a one-year pause for new data centers. The picture shows a conventional plant: tall rectangular exhaust stacks, a row of white cylindrical tanks, and thick white plumes. An Amazon truck is sitting in the parking lot in the foreground. That is the look of cooling-tower or heat-recovery steam (water vapor), not the xAI setup in South Memphis or Southaven. xAI’s power equipment does not look like that. I HATE LIBERALS THEY ARE A BUNCH OF DERANGED PEOPLE • At Colossus 1 (the old Electrolux plant on Paul R. Lowry Road), the company used temporary natural-gas turbines. Those have largely been removed. A Shelby County permit covers up to about 15 permanent turbines, meant eventually as backup only. • Colossus 2 is fed from a site across the state line at about 2875 Stanton Road in Southaven. Those are trailer-mounted Solar gas turbines (SMT-130 and similar), long flatbed units with short exhausts, not tall smokestacks. Counts reported this year ran from the mid-30s into the 60s of temporary units. Mississippi permitted a permanent plant of 41 turbines (about 1.2 GW) in March 2026, with an agreement to phase out the temporary ones by mid-2027. Gas-turbine exhaust is mostly invisible. The white clouds in that WREG photo are steam. The council item itself is a proposed one-year hold on new data-center permits, plus new rules on energy and water use, aimed at the local xAI/SpaceXAI buildout and any projects that follow it.