#ai-data-center

#ai-data-center

Elon Musk's xAI is planning an expansion of its massive data center complex in Memphis, and has purchased a third building in the area that will bring the company's artificial intelligence computing capacity to almost 2 gigawatts, the billionaire wrote Tuesday in a post on X. Musk has already built one data center in Memphis, known as Colossus, and is currently constructing a second nearby site dubbed Colossus 2.

Today Microsoft announced its plans to bring a Fairwater AI data center, which it claims is the " world's most powerful," online in early 2026. The $3.3 billion construction in Wisconsin is housed at the site of Foxconn' s failed LCD factory which was announced in 2017, but by the end of 2018 was already being called a " boondoggle."