Elon Musk-led xAI has deployed 19 natural gas turbines at its second data center facility in Southaven, Mississippi, in the past two months.
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In emails obtained via a public records request by the Southern Environmental Law Center from an official in the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality and a representative from Trinity Consultants, Wired reports that the company installed 19 portable gas turbines at the site between late March and early May. This brings the total number of natural gas units at the site to 46.
Reports suggest that the combined 19 turbines offer more than 500MW of capacity for the data center. xAI did not respond to Wired's request for comment. In March, the company secured permission to install 41 natural gas turbines at the site to power its Colossus 2 data center. However, the latest installation seems to break that threshold.
xAI's main data center portfolio is in Memphis, Tennessee, which it uses to power its Grok AI chatbot. The company came to Memphis in 2024, launching its Colossus supercomputer in a new data center housed in a former Electrolux factory in Memphis’s Boxtown district.
