An xAI official provided new details about plans for the artificial intelligence company's second Memphis facility — but not how it will be powered.

Memphis residents are getting a chance to tell Mayor Paul Young and council members how they want tax dollars from the xAI over the next six weeks, but a cloud still hangs over the project. Elon Musk’s xAI supercomputer was announced last year and unlike other projects,

SELC, NAACP, and Young, Gifted & Green appeal a permit granted to xAI for operating gas-fired turbines, citing potential legal and environmental violations.

The NAACP is appealing the Shelby County Health Department's decision to approve the use of gas turbines at one of xAI's Memphis campuses.

We know that the second iteration of xAI's AI supercomputer, Colossus II, is coming to Whitehaven. Memphis Mayor Paul Young said he "suspects' the power plant used to power xAI's Memphis supercomputers will be housed in Mississippi.

Elon Musk's plans to ship an overseas power plant to Memphis for an xAI supercomputer raise both interest and environmental concerns.

In their appeal, the NAACP and other groups argued that the SCHD put xAI profits over Black people's health, granting unlawful exemptions while turning a blind eye to xAI's operations, which allegedly started in 2024 but were treated as brand-new in 2025.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — xAI executive Brent Mayo said Tuesday the company currently has a presence in Southaven, Mississippi but would not confirm that the site was home to a new power plant that Elon