Every leftover from the last Southaven sentence has a different object. Sixty-nine temporary turbines sat at 2875 Stanton Road in July. Fifty-seven were running. The Northern District of Mississippi postponed the 24 August NAACP hearing on 21 August. The 30 July MDEQ order still says the temps come off by July 2027 and that 41 permitted machines replace them under a March PSD permit and a 1.2-gigawatt plant. Flatten those into one win and you get a false headline. Do not flatten them.
Temporary turbines on site, July 2026, Commercial Appeal / Clarion Ledger 19–21 Aug. Hearing postponed 21 Aug. Agreed order 30 Jul: all temps gone by Jul 2027. EPA 15 Jan NSPS: a trailer can still be stationary.
A chatbot that needs 69 unpermitted machines is not a 2028 radiator.
Trailer, order, plant
The dates are already on paper. 21 August on a postponement. 30 July on an agreed order. 15 January on an EPA preamble that says a turbine on a trailer can still be a stationary source. 28 July on a Pallone letter that asked for a turbine list since June 2024. 3 May on a COLOSSUS cloud-services agreement.
Stanton Road is the exposed permit
The letter the week actually produced is a continuance, not a clean lot. The Commercial Appeal and the Clarion Ledger, updated that afternoon: the Southern Environmental Law Center, for the NAACP and the Mississippi State Conference, wants the unpermitted gas turbines at 2875 Stanton Road shut down. Company papers, as the paper quoted them: an abrupt loss of Stanton Road power would mean Grok would largely cease to function. Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 sit in Memphis. Stanton Road sits in Southaven, just over the line, and is supposed to feed Macrohardrr and minihard as well. The lawsuit's emissions sentence, as the Appeal printed it: more nitrogen oxide than the Memphis airport, more than the nearby TVA combined-cycle plant.
That is all the 21 August order did. The 30 July agreed order with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality is the paper that can still fail: temps start coming off in August and are all gone by July 2027. The Department of Justice moved in June to intervene and dismiss, arguing national-security stakes. Do not litigate that motion from a newspaper. Hold the turbine count, the agreed order, and the postponed date.
EPA's 15 January 2026 turbine NSPS preamble said a turbine on a trailer can still be a stationary source. MDEQ had treated the mobiles as temporary. The January rule is why Musk's permitting-problems-on-land sentence is no longer a vibe. It is a Federal Register page. Pallone's 28 July letter asked for a turbine list since June 2024. That is a document request, not an X argument about 2028 versus 2029.
Bret Johnsen, in the free-writing prospectus the company filed, said hosting others on the ground is how you prove the model even before we get to space. The 3 May COLOSSUS cloud-services agreement is that proof. Southaven is the cost of the proof. The 41 permitted turbines are still gas. The orbital file is how you tell investors the next gigawatt will not need a Stanton Road.
Do not promote a lawsuit into a grounded hall. Do not promote a 1.2-gigawatt permitted plant into a clean story. It is a 2026 air permit.
What a continuance cannot do
Cross-asset does not care which hearing was postponed. AI abundance cares only if Grok's power story becomes a margin story. It has not, on the invoices those pages already named. The rehearsal theme already named the Mini Laser, the Aon hole, and the EchoStar trust. This piece is the street.
A refutation would look like this: all 69 temporary Stanton Road turbines removed by 31 July 2027, per the agreed order; or a preliminary injunction that takes Stanton Road offline before the permitted plant is up; or a 2028 with no orbital compute notice and Stanton Road still the power story. A 21 August postponement is none of those. Forty-one permitted machines on a March PSD permit are none of those until they replace the 69.
The honest uncertainty is which object gets a number first. If the 69 turbines come off and the 1.2-gigawatt plant is still a paper, the rehearsal moved to permitted gas and the orbital slide is still a hedge. If an injunction takes Stanton Road offline before the permitted plant is up, the Grok-would-cease sentence gets a test. If 2028 arrives with no orbital notice and Stanton Road is still the power story, the prospectus sold a hall with a space option. Those three sentences can live in the same year. Sixty-nine turbines are a fact about one lot. A postponement is a fact about one docket. Neither is a radiator.
Empty aisle and a thermos at first light.