xAI (X.AI) has purchased a massive warehouse for the construction of a third data center near Memphis, Tenn.
“xAI has bought a third building called MACROHARDRR,” xAI and Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk said in a post on his social media platform X. “Will take @xAI training compute to almost 2GW.”
The 810,000-square-foot facility is located just across the state line from Memphis in Southaven, Miss. It is positioned near the Colossus 2 data center. It is also close to a new natural gas power plant project being funded by xAI to help provide the necessary electricity for the data centers, according to The Information.
xAI is also developing a 500 MW data center in Saudi Arabia with the kingdom’s state-backed AI venture, Humain, that will rely on chips from Nvidia (NVDA).
The first Colossus data center, located in Memphis, went online in September 2024. The AI training cluster is powered by 100,000 of Nvidia’s H100 GPUs. The process to build it took 122 days.