Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s xAI company has purchased a third building near its existing Memphis sites in the US, which will bring its artificial intelligence (AI) computing capacity to almost 2 gigawatts (GW).
Elon Musk has already built one data centre in Memphis, known as Colossus, and is constructing a second centre nearby dubbed Colossus 2, according to multiple reports.
The newly acquired building is in Southaven, Mississippi, and adjoins the Colossus 2 facility, according to reports citing people familiar with the matter.
“xAI has bought a third building called Macrohardrr,” Musk posted on social media platform X, saying it will “take @xAI training compute to almost 2GW.”
A gigawatt is enough to provide electricity for about 7,50,000 US homes. Musk has publicly discussed plans to build the world’s largest data centre for AI training and previously said Colossus 2 will eventually have 5,50,000 chips from Nvidia, costing tens of billions of dollars.
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