Elon Musk brought ‘the world’s biggest supercomputer’ to Memphis. Residents say they’re choking on its pollution

'Not a Sacrifice Zone for the Profits of a Billionaire': Black Memphis Community Fights Back Against Elon Musk’s Toxic Supercomputer Plant That's Pushing Pollutants In Air

Sarah Gladney first smelled the pungent odor on a recent morning outside her home in Boxtown, a predominantly Black community in southwest Memphis. It wasn’t the “rotten cabbage” smell that was familiar to Gladney and her neighbors. This odor was more chemical, and she told “MLK 50: Justice Through Journalism” that she believes it emanates from the billionaire’s supercomputer located just one mile away from her home.  “What do you have to compar…

Rich entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk and Peter Thiel see themselves as the technological spearhead of humanity. Their futurism, however, proves to be more precisely not a forward-looking one, but a relapse into a past that is already further behind.

By Laura Paddison and Rene Marsh, CNN Last summer, an abandoned factory in southwest Memphis was given new life by the world's richest man. Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI moved in to transform the unprepossessing building into the "world's largest supercomputer." Musk named it Colossus and said it was the "world's most powerful AI training system." It was promoted locally as a source of jobs, tax revenue and a key addition to th…

Elon Musk says AI could run into power capacity issues by middle of next year

Musk told CNBC that his artificial intelligence startup xAI plans to build a gigawatt-size facility outside of Memphis, Tenn.

In the middle of one of the poorest districts in Memphis, Elon Musk is building a new super AI – at the expense of local residents: environmental associations criticise the high levels of pollution.

What Elon Musk said about xAI's second Memphis data center

Elon Musk confirmed in an X post how much electricity xAI’s second Memphis data center, Colossus 2, could use.