In December, one of xAI’s executives got up on stage in front of city leaders in Memphis, and announced that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company was working on an enormous expansion to the “Colossus” supercomputer facility it had recently put together to train its AI model, Grok.
The planned buildout would create an even greater colossus, a behemoth capable of housing a heaping 1 million Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)—a 900% increase to the 100,000 GPUs that xAI’s existing Memphis facility currently has.
