{"id":30308,"date":"2025-03-08T11:45:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T03:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=30308"},"modified":"2025-03-08T11:45:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T03:45:03","slug":"%e9%a9%ac%e6%96%af%e5%85%8b%e5%8a%a0%e9%80%9f-ai-%e5%b8%83%e5%b1%80%ef%bc%9axai-%e5%9c%a8%e5%ad%9f%e8%8f%b2%e6%96%af%e8%b4%ad%e5%85%a5-9-3-%e4%b8%87%e5%b9%b3%e6%96%b9%e7%b1%b3%e5%b7%a5%e4%b8%9a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/30308.html","title":{"rendered":"Musk Accelerates AI Layout: xAI Purchases 93,000 Square Feet of Industrial Land in Memphis, Scales Up Supercomputing Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 8 (Bloomberg) -- The Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce said on Friday that, according to Reuters, the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e9%a9%ac%e6%96%af%e5%85%8b\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [Musk]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Musk<\/a>Under<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e4%ba%ba%e5%b7%a5%e6%99%ba%e8%83%bd\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [artificial intelligence]]\" target=\"_blank\" >AI<\/a>company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/xai\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [xAI]]\" target=\"_blank\" >xA<\/a> Purchased a property in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.<strong>Approximately 93,000 square meters<\/strong>of industrial land. The company is accelerating the expansion of its AI infrastructure as the industry becomes more competitive.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/6330334ej00ssi45g000zd000n100gdp.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The investment is a continuation of an expansion plan from last December. xAI announced at the time that it would locally<strong>Expansion of the Colossus supercomputer<\/strong>This allows it to hold at least 1 million GPUs.<\/p>\n<p>Colossus is considered crucial to Musk's AI efforts, as he seeks to gain an edge over OpenAI. Recently, Musk's beef with ChatGPT developer CEO Sam Altman has intensified, and he has even tried to seize control of OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p>The Chamber says the Colossus supercomputer is moving toward \"supercluster\" size, in line with plans announced by xAI last December.<\/p>\n<p>However, the expansion of AI infrastructure has also drawn criticism from environmentalists because data centers are extremely energy intensive.<\/p>\n<p>The Memphis Chamber of Commerce revealed that the new xAI facility is adjacent to an $80 million (note: currently about Rs. 579 million) water recycling treatment plant and features the world's largest Tesla Megapack battery storage system to support data center operations.<\/p>\n<p>News broke on Wednesday that Tesla will also build a factory in Texas, also covering about 93,000 square meters, to manage and store its Megapack battery products.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 8 (Reuters) - Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has purchased an approximately 93,000-square-foot industrial site in Memphis, in the southwestern U.S. state of Tennessee, the Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce said on Friday. The company is accelerating the expansion of its AI infrastructure as the industry becomes more competitive. The investment is a continuation of an expansion plan from last December, when xAI announced that it would expand its Colossus supercomputer locally to accommodate at least one million GPUs. Colossus is considered critical to Musk's AI deployment, as he seeks to gain an edge against OpenAI. Recently, Musk met with the chief executive of ChatGPT developers to discuss how to improve the AI system in Colossus.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[356,204,355],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-30308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-xai","tag-204","tag-355"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30308"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=30308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}