XAI could tackle some MSCS building upgrades
PURE Academy students talk at the Metal Museum with Brent Mayo (right) a key executive of xAI in Memphis. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Since arriving in Memphis, xAI has built out its data centers with trademark speed. Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company could soon bring a similar approach to some of the $1.4 billion in building upgrades needed at Memphis schools.
Additional contributions from the Musk Foundation, announced Friday, July 25, will allow the Boys and Girls Clubs of Memphis to reopen sites at two high schools that were among the nine that closed earlier this year.
“You should look forward to going to school,” Brent Mayo, a key executive of xAI in Memphis, told reporters earlier this month.
Students shouldn’t be sweating in school, he said.
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Laura Testino
Laura Testino is an enterprise reporter on The Daily Memphian’s metro team who writes most often about how education policies shape the lives of children and families. She regularly contributes to coverage of breaking news events and actions of the Tennessee General Assembly. Testino’s journalism career in Memphis began six years ago at The Commercial Appeal, where she began chronicling learning disruptions associated with the pandemic, and continued with Chalkbeat, where she dug into education administration in Memphis. Her reporting has appeared in The New York Times, The Times-Picayune, The Tuscaloosa News and USA Today.
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