Musk’s xAI Buys Building to Expand ‘Colossus’ Data Center
The xAI data center complex in Memphis, Tennessee.
Photographer: Houston Cofield/BloombergElon Musk’s xAI is planning an expansion of its massive data center complex in Memphis, and has purchased a third building in the area that will bring the company’s artificial intelligence computing capacity to almost 2 gigawatts, the billionaire wrote Tuesday in a post on X.
Musk has already built one data center in Memphis, known as Colossus, and is currently constructing a second nearby site dubbed Colossus 2. The new building Musk posted about is in nearby Southaven, Mississippi, and adjoins the Colossus 2 facility, the Information reported earlier Tuesday, citing property records and a person familiar with the project.