XAI vendor secures facility in Memphis
Houston-based Solaris Energy Infrastructure is opening a 34,000-square-foot warehouse in Whitehaven. The company is a vendor for the Elon Musk-founded AI company xAI.
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January 2025
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Tenn. Gov. Bill Lee tours Memphis’ xAI facility
Lee was joined on the tour by Lt. Gov. Randy McNally and Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton — but not xAI founder Elon Musk.
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MLGW: xAI’s massive expansion a long way from connecting to grid
“It is a physics problem, not a political problem, on how much energy can be provided here,” MLGW CEO Doug McGowen told the Memphis City Council on Tuesday.
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December 2024
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The xAI supercomputer needs power. Some worry what that could mean
Last week, xAI, the startup founded by Elon Musk, announced plans to expand its supercomputer. Now, environmental groups want to know what it will cost Memphis.
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Elon Musk’s xAI poised to invest billions of dollars in Memphis supercomputer
Tech giants Nvidia, Super Micro Computer and Dell are also eyeing Memphis for new manufacturing space.
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Future xAI expansion plans come with power questions
XAI’s planned expansion comes with a pressing question: Where would the project get its power?
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November 2024
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How music can protect the aquifer
The Acoustic Sunday Live series will hold its sixth event to benefit Protect Our Aquifer, the nonprofit that advocates for protection and monitoring of the aquifer that provides Memphis its drinking water.
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TVA board votes to serve xAI, but not without questions
Multiple TVA board members asked questions about the impact xAI has had on surrounding neighborhoods in Westwood and Boxtown.
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October 2024
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TVA board to vote on powering xAI
A person familiar with the company’s thinking has said xAI plans on being fully interruptible, meaning it will cut its electric load down to nothing if the TVA grid is stressed.
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Elon Musk’s AI chatbot doesn’t share his views about the 2024 election
Musk has said he wants xAI to be the most “truth-seeking” artificial intelligence, its training not swayed by ideology. At present, its training appears to not be swayed by anyone, including Musk.
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XAI approved to lease 552 acres in Southwest Memphis for expansion
XAI is set to lease a site via CTC Property LLC, a California LLC affiliated with the Elon Musk company.
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Tennessee Valley Authority won’t say who limits power use when grid needs it
TVA has about 500 large power users that participate in its demand response system, but it won’t say how much energy they cut when they’re asked. It also won’t say who those 500 users are.
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XAI plans to lease 552 acres for Memphis expansion
A person familiar with the matter said the land would be used for future development for xAI and allow the company to build on its ongoing momentum in Memphis.
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XAI applies for permits for greywater facility
The much-talked-about Southwest Memphis greywater facility, which could save billions of gallons of freshwater a year, is a few steps closer to reality.
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September 2024
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Air-monitoring station headed to South Memphis
After weeks of questions, Shelby County Health Department leaders confirmed that the EPA has approved an air monitoring station for xAI’s Memphis Supercomputer ZIP code.
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XAI supercomputer to double in size by year end
Deemed Colossus, the xAI supercomputer is the “most powerful AI training system in the world,” Elon Musk wrote on X Monday, Sept. 2.
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August 2024
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With xAI’s arrival, concerns about Memphis aquifer arise
“There’s a lot of issues that are unknown, and there’s a lot of contamination. ... So how do we address that, and where are those sources coming from?” the science director at Protect Our Aquifer said.
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Environmentalists urge health department to take action on xAI
The EPA considers turbines, such as the ones being used at the xAI supercomputer in Memphis, a significant source of hazardous air pollutants.
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Plans accelerate for Memphis greywater plant
After xAI’s supercomputer came online, the Elon Musk-founded artificial intelligence startup revamped its plans for a greywater facility to include other large water users.
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Residents, activists voice concerns, hear details of xAI project
The meeting hosted by MLGW alongside Memphis City Council member Pearl Walker came after months of community worry about the project, which promises to add the electrical equivalent of several thousand homes to the utility’s distribution system.
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Permits not required for temporary xAI turbines
Environmental activists have raised concerns about emissions from the site as well as impact on the region’s drinking water.
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XAI to build greywater plant, could one day sell it to Memphis
The treated wastewater from the plant would replace demand on the region’s supply and save hundreds of millions of drinking water a year from industrial use.
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Environmental groups urge TVA not to serve xAI
The request comes amid the backdrop of some grassroots opposition to the project in Memphis and growing awareness nationwide of the demands supercomputers and other data centers have placed on electric grids and water supplies.
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MLGW says it can’t reject serving xAI with electricity
The utility company also said the supercomputer’s heavy electric load will have “no impact” on its reliability.
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July 2024
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Here’s how xAI is training its chatbot in Memphis
The Memphis supercomputer is a “massive training center” for xAI’s chatbot Grok, a competitor of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Elon Musk said in a recent interview.
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