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Elon Musk's Memphis AI cluster operates at 11% utilization, wasting $12 billion
“In fact, Elon's like got 500,000 GBP hundreds in Memphis. And running an 11% MFU and less than 60% node allocation. I mean, this is twelve billion dollars of compute being wasted.”
2 Chainz: Esco Restaurant Has Under Nine Locations and Is Franchising
“We have maybe a little bit under nine, but we should, because we're franchising now. Memphis, the Memphis ESCO is doing really well. We have one in Dallas.”
Sacks: Federal forces will deploy to Memphis following governor's invitation
“In Memphis, they have been invited by the Republican governor to go in and help, and so they will.”
Patel: Elon Musk deployed 100,000 GPUs in Memphis within six months
“A hundred K GPUs in six months. He bought a factory in like February of 24 and had models training within six months, right?”
Musk: xAI rented a quarter of all US mobile cooling capacity
“We rented about a quarter of the mobile cooling capacity of the U.S. And put the chillers on the other side of the building.”
Musk: xAI deploying 140K GB200s and 150K H200s in Memphis
“So now we've got 150,000 H 150 K H 200 and 30 K GB 200 in the Memphis training center. And we're about to bring a 110,000 GB 200 online at a second data center also in the Memphis area.”
Hanna says xAI uses methane generators to power its Memphis supercomputer
“I would also say that speaking about existing effects, there's also a lot of reporting coming out of Memphis right now, especially around the methane generators that XAI has been using to power a particular supercomputer there called Colossus there, and specif…”
Coogan: xAI Used 20,000 GPUs to Train Grok 3
“XAI famously built a 100,000 GPU cluster in Memphis and now has 200,000 GPUs and used 20,000 of them to train Grok III.”
Kann: xAI Partially Powers Its Memphis Data Center with On-Site Natural Gas
“This, for example, is how XAI is partially powering its rapidly built data center in Memphis, but lots more similar announcements with new natural gas have arrived.”
xAI built its Memphis Colossus data center in 122 days
“Colossus, which is based in Memphis, which by the way apparently was built in a 122 days. So the fastest you know, time ever to build a data center.”