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Colossus is housed in a predominantly Black, south Memphis community which heightens residents' risk to severe health issues ...
Memphis landed a $12 billion project to house Elon Musk’s supercomputer, which some say will transform the city. It has been ...
But Memphis Mayor Paul Young sees it as an “opportunity for us to benefit as a city.” The project is forecasted to generate ...
xAI has come under scrutiny in recent months for operating methane gas turbines at its Memphis facility to meet the ...
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in ...
xAI, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company ... The company's activities have generated both excitement and controversy, particularly regarding environmental impact. It isn't easy to keep ...
On Monday, Musk tweeted that the supercomputer, based in Memphis ... on creating generative AI technologies, including the controversial pro-free speech chatbot Grok. By assembling hundreds ...
Now, they have a new neighbor: Elon Musk ... creating controversial deepfake images, such as Mickey Mouse as a Nazi and Kamala Harris in lingerie. The primary purpose of the Memphis supercomputer ...
But no longer. They are now at the center of a battle with the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, who built what his company xAI has dubbed the world’s largest supercomputer, Colossus ...
Last year, Musk’s team secured an abandoned factory ... he is expected to build the “largest supercomputer” in the world. All that processing takes power to run, and so the xAI team moved ...
The supercomputer is powered, in great part, by gas turbines that emit nitrogen oxides and formaldehyde, among other air ozone-depleting pollutants. Musk’s company has promised not to exceed the ...
An Elon Musk-owned supercomputer facility on the outskirts of Memphis, Tennessee, is facing public hearings and criticism over pollution and energy usage. Musk had the facility built to power his ...