{"id":5796,"date":"2025-10-08T17:11:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/musk-xai-facility-memphis\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T17:11:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:11:21","slug":"musk-xai-facility-memphis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/musk-xai-facility-memphis\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Building Huge Secretive Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When talking about the giants dominating the AI game, people tend to consider OpenAI, the massive private company behind ChatGPT, or else Google\u2019s Gemini, or perhaps Microsoft\u2019s Copilot. In other words, no one really thinks about Elon Musk as an AI leader.<\/p>\n

Evidently, that\u2019s a perception he\u2019s hoping to change with the construction of an enormous computing complex in Memphis, Tennessee, meant to match the 114-acre one already in operation.<\/p>\n

Reporting on Musk\u2019s AI ambitions, the Wall Street Journal <\/em>revealed<\/a> over the weekend that Musk is getting close to finishing construction on a massive facility, which he says will sport over 500,000 AI chips. Creatively dubbed \u201cColossus 2\u201d after its elder sibling across the dirt road, sources familiar with the project told the WSJ <\/em>that the data center needs roughly 300,000 more Nvidia chips before the project is officially wrapped.<\/p>\n

Those alone are going to cost \u201cat least\u201d $18 billion, not to mention the cost of the likely hundreds of thousands of chips already in place, or the gigantic building needed to house them all.<\/p>\n

The news follows the rapid construction of the first Colossus megasite, which Musk powered with noxious portable methane generators<\/a> in order to bypass local laws and open the doors as quickly as possible. The tech tycoon has since purchased a nearby power plant<\/a> to satisfy the data center\u2019s immense energy needs \u2014 something he\u2019ll need plenty of to take Colossus 2 online.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn one year, xAI has become the second largest taxpayer in the city and county after\u00a0FedEx,\u201d Bill Dunavant III, a member of the Memphis chamber of commerce told the WSJ<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Dunavant didn\u2019t mention that it\u2019s also slated to become one of the city\u2019s top polluters, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council<\/a><\/em>, which noted that nearby residents are struggling with rolling blackouts, skyrocketing utility bills, and even more toxic smog<\/a> than there already was.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople target this area because they think that we\u2019re the path of least resistance,\u201d KeShaun Pearson, director of the activist group Memphis Community Against Pollution<\/a> told NRDC<\/em>. \u201cThey think this area is a sacrifice zone and that people here don\u2019t matter. But they\u2019re dying. They\u2019ve been dying.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for them, \u201cthis is just the beginning,\u201d as the Colossus website<\/a> ominously foretells. \u201cWe were told it would take 24 months to build. So we took the project into our own hands, questioned everything, removed whatever was unnecessary, and accomplished our goal in four months.\u201d<\/p>\n

The message is crystal clear: while the local residents are forced to suffer the effects of Musk\u2019s ego, the project will continue at a breakneck pace, consequences be damned. After all, their health and wellness is a small price to pay if it means catching up to Musk\u2019s fellow billionaires in the AI race.<\/p>\n

More on Musk: <\/strong>Tesla and xAI Staff Are Fleeing as Musk Becomes Increasingly Erratic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The post Elon Musk Building Huge Secretive Facility<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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