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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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.
Deemed Colossus, the xAI supercomputer is the “most powerful AI training system in the world,” Elon Musk wrote on X Monday, Sept. 2.
“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.
The EPA considers turbines, such as the ones being used at the xAI supercomputer in Memphis, a significant source of hazardous air pollutants.
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.
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. Related story:
Environmental activists have raised concerns about emissions from the site as well as impact on the region’s drinking water.
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.
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.
The utility company also said the supercomputer’s heavy electric load will have “no impact” on its reliability.
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.
A megapack would provide 1.9 megawatts of power and cost about $1.1 million.
A source close to xAI said it could share a greywater plant with the Tennessee Valley Authority. TVA did not dismiss the idea. Related story:
The billionaire was likely in Memphis this weekend.
All 100,000 H100 Nvidia chips for the xAI supercomputer have been received.
“Without question, Memphis is a great city. Now, one of the world’s richest men wants to join us. We welcome and celebrate his investment, but aren’t surprised.”
Memphis Light, Gas and Water announced its plans for a greywater treatment facility, running parallel to the greywater facility plans of Elon Musk-founded artificial intelligence company xAI.
The Elon Musk-founded artificial intelligence company will hire up to 120 additional people to create a “fiber team,” bringing potential staffing at the Memphis site to 320.
The Elon Musk-founded supercomputer is halfway through construction, and the company’s preliminary engineering plans for its greywater plant are almost complete.
“Changing how the physical world operates is the real-world interface that will truly be transformative. Connecting the digital and physical worlds is possible and within grasp because of this AI computing center in Memphis.”
Environmental groups are asking Memphis Light, Gas and Water to slow down approvals for xAI’s supercomputer construction in southwest Memphis.
The supercomputer intended to power and do computations for Grok, the chatbot run by xAI’s artificial intelligence, could be up and running as early as August, a source familiar with the matter told The Daily Memphian.
Information obtained by The Daily Memphian through a Tennessee Public Records Act request shows xAI could rank among the top-five Memphis Light, Gas and Water customers.
The governor also discussed education after the passage of the third-grade retention law during a Wednesday, June 12, visit to Winchester Elementary School’s summer-learning academy.
“It is a real solution to protect the quantity as well as quality of our drinking water and to serve as an economic-development tool for other industries with environmental commitments.”
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