by Kaitlin Housler | Oct 9, 2026 | Culture, News, Tennessee, The South
The Boring Company said construction of its Music City Loop project in Nashville is accelerating, with two tunnel boring machines now operating simultaneously and two more expected to join before the end of the year. In an October 1 blog post, the company said...
by Kaitlin Housler | Sep 14, 2026 | Culture, News, Tennessee, The South
The Boring Company is continuing tunneling operations for its Music City Loop transportation project in Nashville, with the company reporting that its second tunnel boring machine is now working through the city’s limestone. In a Friday post on X, The Boring Company...
by Kaitlin Housler | Aug 20, 2026 | Culture, News, Tennessee, The South
The Boring Company announced it will hold a hiring event next week to expand its Nashville workforce as construction continues on the Music City Loop The company said in a post on X that it is hiring workers for the project, with two tunnel boring machines currently...
by Kaitlin Housler | Jun 29, 2026 | Culture, News, Tennessee, The South
U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Sean Duffy toured the Music City Loop construction site last week, hailing the privately-funded project as “critical infrastructure” seeking to “meaningfully improve” the lives of those traveling around Nashville. In a...
by Kaitlin Housler | Jun 2, 2026 | Culture, News, Tennessee, The South
The Boring Company said construction of its Music City Loop transit system continues to accelerate, with the project’s first tunnel boring machine actively excavating beneath Nashville and a second machine scheduled to begin tunneling later this month. In the...
by Kaitlin Housler | May 15, 2026 | News, Politics, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, The South
Tennessee Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R-Franklin) said The Boring Company’s Music City Loop underground transit system a “win-win all the way around,” praising the privately funded project as a major solution to the city’s growing traffic congestion. During a...
by Kaitlin Housler | May 7, 2026 | Economy, News, Tennessee, The South
Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the Claude, announced Wednesday it has signed an agreement to use the full compute capacity of the Colossus 1 supercomputer facility in Memphis. The agreement gives Anthropic access to more than 300 megawatts of...
by Zachery Schmidt | Mar 11, 2026 | Economy, News, State News, Tennessee, The South
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) issued a permit to Elon Musk’s xAI company this week to build a power plant in Southaven. Southaven, about 15 minutes from Memphis, will help power the Colossus 2 data center, which helps operate Grok. The...
by Kaitlin Housler | Mar 5, 2026 | Culture, News, Tennessee, The South
Three cities in Tennessee have been selected as finalists in The Boring Company’s Tunnel Vision Challenge, a competition that will award one proposal the construction of a free tunnel project up to one mile long, aimed at improving transportation or infrastructure...
by Zachery Schmidt | Mar 4, 2026 | News, Policy, Tennessee, The South, TN LEAD
The Metro Nashville Council approved a resolution on Tuesday opposing the Music City Loop project, a 13-mile route. Council members passed the resolution by a 20-15 vote, with two people abstaining. In February, the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) and...
