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 | Feb 2, 2026 | Culture, News, Tennessee, The South
Elon Musk, CEO of the artificial intelligence company xAI and electric vehicle company Tesla, has donated 500 generators to the Nashville area as tens of thousands of households remain without power following last week’s Winter Storm Fern. The generator donations are...
by Kaitlin Housler | Jun 6, 2024 | Economy, News, Tennessee, The South
Businessman and investor Elon Musk plans to build the world’s largest supercomputer in Memphis, representing the city’s largest capital investment by a new-to-market company in its history. Musk’s company, xAI, would build its supercomputer, called Gigafactory of...
