There are 18 article(s) tagged Data center:

• July 2026

  • SpaceXAI agrees to remove Mississippi turbines

    SpaceXAI said Thursday, July 30, that it and the State of Mississippi had entered an agreement for winding down some of the company’s sprawling power plant operations in Southaven. 

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    SpaceXAI buys 10 acres in Southaven

    By Samuel Hardiman 1 hour ago

  • It could soon be more difficult to build data centers in Olive Branch

    City Planning Commission officials discussed new regulations for potential data centers in the city amid national controversy and concerns from local residents.

    By Aarron Fleming July 16, 2026

  • Could Memphis ban data centers? Maybe.

    On Tuesday, the Memphis City Council discussed potential zoning changes that would impact data centers.

    By Samuel Hardiman July 07, 2026

• June 2026

  • Olive Branch Planning Commission denies new project that could have included data center

    The proposed nearly-600 acre “DeSoto Innovation District” caused an uproar on social media in recent days after project documents showed a data center as a conditional use.

    By Aarron Fleming June 10, 2026

• April 2026

  • Elon Musk gives timeline on water recycling plant

    The Daily Memphian reported the water recycling facility, a key promise the company made to local leaders and residents, was “on an indefinite pause.” Without it, xAI uses fresh drinking water to cool its Colossus data center.

    By Samuel Hardiman April 09, 2026

• March 2026

  • XAI properties appraised at $3.5 billion, documents show

    The appraisals for the two data centers help to determine how much Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company will pay in property taxes.

    By Samuel Hardiman March 26, 2026

  • 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.

    By The Associated Press, Samuel Hardiman March 04, 2026

• January 2026

  • 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.

    By Sophia Surrett January 13, 2026

  • XAI buys building for 3rd Memphis-area data center in Southaven

    The company already has two Memphis data centers.

    By Samuel Hardiman January 02, 2026

• November 2025

  • Data center coming to former Fred’s wants 15-year PILOT

    With the help of the PILOT, 5c plans to add 15 new jobs with an average wage of $103,400, according to the EDGE documents.

    By Dima Amro November 17, 2025

• October 2025

  • Google to invest $4B in West Memphis

    A Google representative said they would hire “hundreds of people for full-time operational jobs here on the site and thousands of construction jobs.”

    By Dima Amro October 03, 2025

• September 2025

  • The latest on Google’s West Memphis data center? It could add water recycling.

    Google plans to limit its water usage to “domestic needs” and cover all the energy costs needed to power its West Memphis facility. 

    By Dima Amro September 15, 2025

  • Google confirms West Memphis data center

    The Entergy Arkansas president and CEO said the utility company is “proud to be partnering with Google on this exciting new project bringing unprecedented economic opportunity to Arkansas.”

    By Dima Amro September 05, 2025

• June 2025

  • City tests air quality near xAI sites

    The city conducted the testing following community concern about Elon Musk-founded xAI’s use of natural gas turbines at its supercomputer in Southwest Memphis. 

    By Samuel Hardiman June 25, 2025

• May 2025

  • Google plans data center in West Memphis

    Site plans submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Memphis office describe a 920-acre site with five large-scale data center buildings, office buildings, parking areas, internal access roads, a utility substation, stormwater management facilities, utilities and associated infrastructure.

    By Dima Amro May 20, 2025

  • 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.

    By Dima Amro May 06, 2025

• April 2025

  • Inked: Data Center in the works, egg wholesaler headed to Memphis

    The Texas-based wholesale egg distributor plans to operate near the Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium. 

    By Dima Amro April 02, 2025

• March 2025

  • 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.

    By Sophia Surrett, Samuel Hardiman March 07, 2025