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xAI Buys Third Building for Colossus Expansion, Targeting Nearly 2GW

The reported Southaven site sits beside a planned natural-gas plant to support a 2026 data-center conversion.

Overview

  • Elon Musk said xAI purchased a third building named MACROHARDRR, saying the upgrade will take training compute to almost 2 gigawatts.
  • Reporting identifies the building in Southaven, Mississippi, adjoining the Colossus 2 site outside Memphis.
  • The Information reports xAI plans to begin converting the warehouse into a data center in 2026.
  • xAI aims to scale Colossus to at least one million GPUs as it seeks to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic on advanced model training.
  • Both the new site and Colossus 2 are described as being near a natural-gas plant xAI is developing, drawing environmental criticism over energy use.