Wired reports that the US Department of Justice filed a motion asking a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the NAACP over xAI's gas-burning turbines in Memphis, Tennessee. According to the DOJ filing, xAI's technology is integral to US military operations, including activities related to the Iran War, making the company a critical national security asset. The argument is a significant escalation: it frames a private AI company not merely as commercially important but as indispensable to active military operations. The NAACP originally sued over environmental harm from the turbines xAI uses to power its Colossus supercomputing cluster.