Colossus: Can Memphis stop Elon Musk?

Elon Musk's xAI ambitions must not harm Memphis-Shelby County residents' health

No company, not even Elon Musk's xAI, should get a blank check to do business in Memphis without community input and strict safeguards.

Colossus: Can Memphis stop Elon Musk?

To many, xAI is just another chapter in what residents said they think is a legacy of industrial racism and pollution. The debate centers on one central question: Is Colossus worth the cost?

AI Supercomputer in Memphis Sparks Environmental Concerns - Dallas Weekly

When users on X (as Twitter has officially been called since being purchased by Elon Musk) query the platform’s Grok AI chatbot, one bit of a massive computer housed in a South Memphis industrial facility whirs to life. Colossus, as the supercomputer is known, is comprised of 100,000 processors that fill a building the size of 13 football fields. The data center is not far from Boxtown, a neighborhood founded by emancipated enslaved people in th…