Elon Musk’s New AI Data Center Raises Energy and Water Concerns in Memphis [Video]

In a July 22 post on his social media site X, Elon Musk congratulated staff at his artificial intelligence company, xAI, for quickly getting its newest facility up and running to train his AI chatbot, named Grok.

“Training started at 4:20 a.m. local time,” Musk wrote in a cheeky nod with a “420” marijuana reference that has become part of his style.

Musk called the data facility installed in a former Electrolux manufacturing building in southwest Memphis, Tennessee, a “supercluster” and said it will eventually hold 100,000 high-powered, liquid-cooled graphic processing unit, or GPU, chips made by Nvidia.

“It’s the most powerful AI training cluster in the world!” Musk wrote in his post.

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