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.