Olive Branch restricts data centers
The ordinance, which puts restrictions on noise and how close data centers can be home to homes in the area, is effective immediately.
Topic: Artificial Intelligence
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August 2026
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Council committee passes data center pause
The proposed Memphis data center moratorium would block the issuance of building permits or site plans for new data centers in the city, according to a copy of the ordinance.
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Opinion: Mayor Young — Data center investment requires new rules for growth
“The communities that succeed in this next economy will be the ones capable of supporting major investment while maintaining the trust of the people who call them home.”
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SpaceXAI made a lot of news last week. Here’s a breakdown.
Two days last week brought a dizzying array of headlines about SpaceXAI’s operations in the Mid-South. So let’s catch up and break down why it all matters and how it fits into the bigger picture.
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July 2026
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SpaceXAI has built another Memphis data center
Elon Musk appeared to acknowledge that the company had built a new data center, known as “Minihard.”
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Anti-AI show-and-tell is all about generating interest in ‘real artists’
“It just doesn’t make sense for people in a city where our water is being used up by the data center … to contribute to that,” said one of the hosts for Lamplighter Lounge’s first anti-AI show-and-tell.
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June 2026
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Why is Hernando’s Hide-A-Way taking a stand against AI art? It comes down to soul.
Generative AI has become widely used. But Celine Lee, co-owner of Hernando’s Hide-A-Way, wants no part of it. Here’s why.
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May 2026
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Opinion: Federal Trade Commission shuts down AI scam
Entrepreneurs and small business owners who bought into Air AI’s programs lost as much as $250,000.
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Claude AI to use xAI’s Memphis data center
Anthropic, the company behind the widely successful Claude chatbot, would use all of Colossus’ computing capacity.
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April 2026
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Mid-South public universities join forces for AI research
The universities of Memphis, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee Health Science Center will focus on five areas of research and development.
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March 2026
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Trump says deal on data centers will lower electricity prices as tech companies vow to cover costs
The president of SpaceX, which just merged with xAI, made a series of pledges about xAI’s plans for Memphis and North Mississippi.
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XAI files $659 million building permit
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company continues to pour billions of dollars into Memphis and North Mississippi.
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February 2026
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‘The robots are coming:’ Memphis in the middle of the AI boom
“We cannot miss this opportunity,” investment strategist David Waddell told a Greater Memphis Chamber audience. “I feel highly confident that the work of this chamber will make sure we’ll do all right.”
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January 2026
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Another local AI data center planned, this one on Sycamore View
A Nashville-based investor has spent 18 months looking “relentlessly” for properties to house his modular AI data centers.
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August 2025
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Echols: Words that aren’t the uninhabited talk of AI
“While AI can talk about God, it cannot speak about experiencing him. It can offer no first-person perspective on what God is like in the euphoria of love or in the depths of grief.”
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Opinion: Words don’t just reflect hate, they give it permission
“We must choose a different story. It is impossible to tell the story of Memphis without telling the story of the Jewish people who helped build it.”
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July 2025
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XAI’s second data center to come online within weeks
On Tuesday afternoon, a company representative, speaking on background, held a call with local reporters and took questions about the project.
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May 2025
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Chamber: xAI does not plan to use turbines at Whitehaven site
Documents show artificial intelligence company xAI considered using dozens of natural-gas turbines to power the second data center. However, the Greater Memphis Chamber said the company is “is demobilizing turbines in Shelby County.”
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XAI removing some turbines in next two months
XAI has operated the turbines currently running without an air-emissions permit — using a temporary-use exemption that allows the machines to run for the first 364 days without a permit.
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XAI’s second data center could use enough electricity to power 40% of Memphis
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Former Fred’s HQ to become AI data center
The data center is expected to create more than 250 direct and indirect jobs in the Memphis area, with an investment of more than $500 million.
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April 2025
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AI-powered cameras are monitoring Downtown
Downtown Memphis’ 63 artificial-intelligence-powered traffic cameras monitor activity down to the types of vehicles that pass through its streets daily and how fast they are going. The city plans to add about 200 additional cameras.
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March 2025
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XAI building new data center in Whitehaven
It sits a few hundred yards from the Tennessee Valley Authority Southaven Combined Cycle Plant. The plant will provide a power source for the energy-intensive data center.
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February 2025
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XAI plans to use natural gas turbines long-term
CTC Property, a subsidiary of xAI, applied for air-emissions permits for its fleet of natural gas turbines in January.
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October 2024
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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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September 2024
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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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