Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, plans to walk $20 cardinal connected a information halfway successful Southaven, Mississippi
BySOPHIE BATES Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. -- Elon Musk's artificial quality institution xAI is acceptable to walk $20 cardinal to physique a information halfway successful Southaven, Mississippi, Gov. Tate Reeves announced Thursday, calling it the largest backstage concern successful the state's history.
The information center, called MACROHARDRR, is being built successful Mississippi’s DeSoto County adjacent Memphis, Tennessee. It volition beryllium the company’s 3rd information halfway successful the greater Memphis area. xAI CFO Anthony Armstrong said the clump of information centers volition location “the world's largest supercomputer" with 2 gigawatts of computing power.
The announcement comes arsenic xAI faces scrutiny implicit its information halfway projects successful the Memphis area. The NAACP and the Southern Environmental Law Center person raised concerns implicit aerial contamination generated by xAI's supercomputer installation located adjacent predominantly Black communities successful Memphis.
A petition by the Safe and Sound Coalition, a Southaven radical opposing xAI's developments, calls for shutting down xAI's operations successful the country and has received much than 900 signatures arsenic of Thursday afternoon.
xAI did not instantly respond erstwhile asked for remark astir biology concerns.
A information expanse released by the Mississippi governor's bureau said biology work is simply a “core commitment” for xAI.
During the announcement, Reeves personally thanked Musk. Reeves predicted the concern would bring hundreds of imperishable jobs to the community, thousands of indirect subcontracting jobs, and taxation gross to enactment nationalist services.
Under the incentives for information centers passed successful 2024, the authorities volition waive each sales, firm income and franchise taxes connected the xAI development. Saving income taxes connected the computing powerfulness that xAI is purchasing would apt beryllium worthy a important magnitude of money, but the Mississippi Development Authority did not instantly respond to The Associated Press' questions astir however overmuch taxation gross Mississippi volition springiness up.
DeSoto County and the metropolis of Southaven person besides agreed to let substantially reduced spot taxes.
xAI is expected to statesman information halfway operations successful Southaven adjacent month.
English (CA) · 
English (US) · 
Spanish (MX) ·