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xAI offers to buy Southaven homes from residents who give up claims in a noise lawsuit

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Source: Mississippi Free PressAlso reported by Mississippi Today

xAI’s subsidiary MZX Tech has written to households in Southaven, Mississippi, offering through a broker to buy their homes in exchange for a release of all claims related to a class action over noise and vibration from its gas-turbine power plant. The Mississippi Free Press reported the letter on 25 September 2026 from a copy of it. Residents filed the suit in June. It names three plaintiffs and says more than 10,000 class members live in the affected area. The letter says MZX denies the allegations and also needs property for its business. It gives no price, and residents say offers appear to follow listed appraisal values. State regulators recorded 69 unpermitted turbines at the site as of 31 July.

Why it matters

Residents who sell would give up any damages from the class action and any claim of their own over the plant that powers xAI’s data centres.

When
25 Sep 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0486
Where
United States, Mississippi
Who
xAI, MZX Tech
Authority
Southaven residents (class action plaintiffs)
Target
xAI and MZX Tech
Action
buyout offers conditioned on releasing claims
Status
open · Enforcement ledger

Summary written with AI by wheresthe.ai, from Mississippi Free Press and the reporting credited above. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 29 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Mississippi Free Press

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WTA-N-2026-0486: “xAI offers to buy Southaven homes from residents who give up claims in a noise lawsuit.” wheresthe.ai, 25 Sep 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/us-xai-offers-to-buy-southaven-homes-from-residents-who-drop-noise-claims-2026-09/ (source: Mississippi Free Press).

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