Elon Musk recently admitted that he is spending roughly four days a week in the Bluff City to supervise in the construction of his supercomputer clusters throughout Tennessee and Mississippi.
Musk is hoping to increase the computing power of his data centers from 3 gigawatts by the end of 2026 to nearly 13 gigawatts by the end of 2027.
Space XAI has been fueling both traffic and jobs in the Mid-South, with currently more than 160 job openings as of yesterday.
It is unclear where in Memphis in particular Musk is staying, but the tech mogul did recently claim that he was living in an Airstream trailer in the area that he jokingly called his “palace.”
Elon Musk’s company, xAI, is building a massive supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee, called “Colossus,” which is powering the AI chatbot “Grok May 14, 2025 in Memphis, Tennessee. .
