US EditionMusk's xAI Acquires Third Building for AI Data Center
xAI acquired a third building to expand its Memphis-area AI data center, aiming to boost compute capacity near 2 gigawatts and house 1 million GPUs by 2026, Musk said.
- On Dec 30, Elon Musk said xAI bought a third building, MACROHARDRR, to expand infrastructure and `Will take @xAI training compute to almost 2GW`.
- XAI plans to expand Colossus supercomputer cluster to house at least 1 million GPUs and expects 2026 conversion start of the newly purchased warehouse near a natural gas power plant near Memphis.
- The Information and Reuters reported the new building is planned outside Memphis, Tennessee, underscoring xAI's push to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude while its Colossus cluster is already the world's largest.
- Environmental activists criticized xAI’s expansion due to high energy use, while last month it was reported the company is in $15 billion late-stage funding talks, valuing it at about $230 billion, and did not respond to Reuters.
- For investors, the expansion signals rising competitive stakes as the MACROHARDRR building references Microsoft Corp and highlights xAI's push to outpace OpenAI and Anthropic.
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Elon Musk said xAI has bought a third building to expand its Colossus supercomputer toward nearly 2 gigawatts of compute power as it scales AI training to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic, even as the startup pursues a $15 billion funding round valuing it at about $230 billion.
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Musk’s xAI Buys Building to Expand ‘Colossus’ Data Center
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