SpaceX is overhauling how it builds and tests xAI data centers after facilities in Tennessee and Mississippi ran for months without complete backup power and cooling systems, causing outages and uptim…
Ulanqab prefecture in Inner Mongolia is building more than 5 million data center racks, roughly 1,000 times the scale of Elon Musk's 200,000-chip Colossus supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee, accordin…
SpaceX reported that about 2,000 customers in the greater Memphis and Southaven area have signed up for its discounted Starlink satellite internet service since late June, when the company began offer…
SpaceX is building a turbine blade foundry in Bastrop, Texas, to make nickel superalloy castings for industrial gas turbines, aiming to bypass a supply bottleneck that has major turbine makers like GE…
Gallup polling shows 71% of Americans opposed an AI data center near them by March 2026, up from 47% in late 2025, making data centers less popular than nuclear power plants, which 53% oppose. At leas…
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) approved a new electricity rate for data centers that will raise their power costs by about 10%, effective Oct. 1, to prevent AI data centers from shifting infrast…
Elon Musk said SpaceX's xAI operation is targeting 10GW of terrestrial AI compute capacity by December 2027, up from a reported 1.4GW at its Memphis and Southaven data centers, implying roughly sevenf…
Elon Musk announced that xAI will increase its data center power capacity to 10 gigawatts by the end of 2027, roughly seven times its current 1.4GW capacity across facilities in Memphis and Southaven.…
5C Group secured $605 million in debt financing led by Brookfield Asset Management on August 11, 2026, to fund AI data center campus development in Memphis, Phoenix, and Ohio. The financing follows $8…
Elon Musk said on August 1 that SpaceX is recruiting engineers and skilled-trades workers to build and operate AI supercomputer clusters on Earth and in space, directing applicants to email a resume a…
SpaceX, now known as SpaceXAI after being rolled into Elon Musk's rocket company, said it will remove the 69 unpermitted portable gas turbines powering its Colossus data center campus near Memphis, Te…
Elon Musk's xAI, now called SpaceXAI, will phase out 69 gas turbines at its Colossus data center in Memphis, Tennessee, following protests and lawsuits over noise and air pollution. The company announ…
Wildfire smoke from Canada has blanketed the Great Lakes region, with air quality index scores nearing 1,000, as CNBC technology and climate reporter Lora Kolodny discusses how AI datacenter build-out…
The NAACP, alongside Earthjustice and the Southern Environmental Law Centre, has filed a federal lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI, alleging the company is operating 27 gas turbines at its Memphis data …
New York Governor Kathy Hochul imposed the first statewide moratorium on large new data centers, pausing discretionary environmental permits for facilities requiring 50 megawatts or more for up to a y…
Elon Musk's xAI has deployed 59 natural gas turbines without required Clean Air Act permits to power its Colossus 2 supercomputer and data center project near Memphis, Tennessee, triggering lawsuits f…
Elon Musk's AI company xAI installed 59 natural gas turbines across two supercomputer sites in Memphis, Tennessee and Southaven, Mississippi without obtaining required federal clean air permits under …
Elon Musk's xAI has been operating dozens of unpermitted methane gas turbines at its Colossus 2 data center in Southaven, Mississippi, releasing over 1,700 tons of nitrogen oxides and other pollutants…
Residents of Boxtown, a historic Black community in southwest Memphis, are confronting the impacts of the Colossus AI data center complex built by xAI and now leased to Anthropic and Google, raising f…
A federal lawsuit has been filed against Elon Musk's xAI over its Colossus supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee, where residents of the predominantly Black Boxtown neighborhood report noise and air pol…