Elon Musk’s Boring Company to build 10 miles of tunnels in Nashville
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Elon Musk’s tunnel initiative, boring company, announced At the beginning of this week, he plans to build a 10 -mile underground cycle in Nashville. Press release praises the project.
While the democratic deputies in Nashville demanded answers to plans, the state’s republican leaders skipped the chance to become a partner with Musk. A state commission organizes an emergency meeting and a public hearing on Thursday morning to discuss the “cost/mutual benefit” lease, which is proposed to help the company launch tunnels.
“We are aware of the state’s speeches with the boring company, and we have a number of operational questions to understand the potential effects on the Metro and Nashvillians,” Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell said. He said.
Texas, Pflugerville -based The Boring Co. The commission, which held a meeting on Thursday, is the governor of Tennessee, the President of the Assembly, the President of the Senate and the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The members of the people were invited to testify, but he made less than a week.
On Monday, Boring Co. And the state officials announced that the Musk initiative would dig the state -owned roads to the city center and the congress center with a transition time to Nashville International Airport with a transition time of approximately 8 minutes.
This is called Music City Loop, and the project points to Musk’s latest efforts to support the budding business empire in Tomessee. The artificial intelligence attempt, the parent of the social media platform X, is building data centers and an electrical power plant in Memphis on the west side of the state.
In a statement on Monday, the governor said that Nashville project would “come to taxpayers at zero cost” and “completely financed in special”, but before accepting the agreement, no details were completed by what kind of cost-money analysis, environment, security or traffic assessment was completed.
Last year, Musk became a great force in republican politics, and in the first few months of this year, before working for the Trump administration, he spent almost $ 300 million to help re -choose President Donald Trump. Musk, federal agencies, arrangements and personnel by cutting Trump’s Doga attempt to lead the boring Co. CEO brought Steve Davis.
Justin Jones, a democratic state representative in Nashville, told CNBC on Wednesday that its region could not participate in any public commentary period and did not see any environmental impact report or health assessment of the Music City cycle or structure.
‘It is not allowed to be here’
On Wednesday evening, Boring Co., with the participation of Davis, organized a recruitment event in the parking lot, where the company expects the state to give a cost -free rent. Deputy CNBC’ye told, Jones, Musk’s company’s company, hoping to discuss the work he wanted to create, went to the event.
“CEO is here and the other members of the team, but they sent someone to tell me not to be allowed to be here,” Jones said with a text message boring Co. He shares a video of his interaction with his employees.
On Monday, Jones came to a separate company event at Nashville Airport, claiming that only the authorities lack appropriate identity information to join.
Jones told CNBC that state officials explained that only state -level powers would be necessary for boring CO.. The project will begin because the tunnels will enter under the state roads and will not require the use of taxpayers.
“We are not informed about where or exactly what these tunnels will be.” He said. “Tomorrow they vote for free to give the state land free of charge. But there is a clear cost of giving the land.”
The governor did not respond to Jones’ concerns about his requests for comments. Boring Co. Representatives could not comment immediately.
Boring Co. has previously built tunnels in Las Vegas, including the first two miles to move to different exhibition halls around Las Vegas Congress Center in Las Vegas. Tesla Drivers travel from tunnels to buy and quit passengers who reserve their driving using an application.
The first cycle was criticized for the cost of approximately 50 million dollars and pedestrian entries, walking paths and platforms and a subway system. Boring Co. was fined by Nevada Occupational Safety and Health Administration for repeated violations and workers’ injuries in Las Vegas.
Musk The company also abandoned its plans to build tunnels in other places, including Chicago.
A special concern in Nashville is that according to the National Weather Service Compared to about 4 inches in Las Vegas, the city tends to flood with an average annual rainfall annually. The city’s metro water services have previously been arranged to buy a house at lower prices than the residents in the vulnerable areas and to turn the land there into green areas.
Boring Co. has no experience in areas with such rainfall and floods.
According to a copy of the state government’s agenda, the public hearing on Thursday to discuss whether the boring Co.’ya parking spaces will give the boring Co. to the boring Co., starts at 08:00 at the Cordell Hull State Office building on Thursday. website.
In Memphis, Xai has faced a community reaction to the use of natural gas burning turbines that strengthen the data center and super computer. Located in an old home instrument factory, the facility is responsible for educating Xai’s controversial chatbot gok.
NaACP and other environmental and public health advocates He opens the Xai caseSaying that the company worsened the air pollution in the region, the majority living near its facilities damaged the black communities and violated the Clean Air Life. An XAI spokesman said that the groups announced the intention of suing at that time, and the company “took our commitment to society and the environment seriously.”
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