Here’s how much water xAI is using to cool its supercomputer
A water recycling facility would replace xAI’s potential use of the aquifer to cool its supercomputer. (The Daily Memphian file)
Progress on xAI’s water-recycling facility has slowed to a bureaucratic trickle, but construction could come like a flood in a matter of weeks or months.
For the past several weeks, the public-comment period has been open for the Colossus water recycling facility, which is awaiting a final ruling on its permitting from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation.
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Samuel Hardiman
Samuel Hardiman is an enterprise and investigative reporter who focuses on local government and politics. He began his journalism career at the Tulsa World in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he covered business and, later, K-12 education. Hardiman came to Memphis in 2018 to join the Memphis Business Journal, covering government and economic development. He then served as the Memphis Commercial Appeal’s city hall reporter and later joined The Daily Memphian in 2023. His current work focuses on Elon Musk’s xAI, regional energy needs and how Memphis and Shelby County government spend taxpayer dollars.
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