AI company owned by Elon MuskxAIhas its own data center in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. localGreater Memphis Chamber of Commercerevealed on December 4, 2024 that xAI is planning to expand its data center.
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At xAI’s data center, the supercomputer “Colossus” for training AI models such as “Grok” has been operating since September 2024. Colossus is equipped with 100,000 NVIDIA high-performance AI processing chips “H100″, and at the start of operation, Mr. Musk said, “We will double the number of AI processing chips to 200,000 within a few months” and expand the scale. showed a desire to
Elon Musk’s AI company “xAI” starts operation of AI learning cluster “Colossus” equipped with 100,000 NVIDIA H100, and “AI learning cluster equipped with 200,000 H100” is scheduled to be completed within a few months – GIGAZINE
At the Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Chairman’s Conference on December 4, 2024, xAI unveiled further expansion plans for Colossus. According to xAI, Colossus will be equipped with at least 1 million AI processing chips in the future.
“When xAI announced that Memphis would be home to Colossus around June 2024, we recognized it as a historic moment for us,” said Ted Townsend, president and CEO of the Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce. “Not only has we provided the power and speed xAI needs to grow and thrive, but we’ve also been able to attract other companies like NVIDIA, Dell, and Supermicro.”
To facilitate large-scale xAI efforts, the Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce has established the xAI Special Operations Team, led by Mr. Townsend himself. The team will provide xAI with 24-hour concierge services and will be led by Troy Parks, senior vice president of global business development, to help xAI seamlessly execute its data center expansion plans.
On the other hand, some activists and lawmakers have pointed out environmental concerns about plans to expand data centers using xAI, and in August 2024, the Southern Environmental Law Center asked local authorities in Tennessee to require xAI. Regarding the use of gas turbines as a power source for supercomputers without obtaining proper permission.investigationI’m looking for.
In addition, xAI announced on December 5, 2024 that it had raised a total of $6 billion (approximately 900 billion yen) from 97 investors. It was reported that xAI’s corporate value after raising funds is expected to exceed $50 billion (7.5 trillion yen), and that xAI’s competitiveness in the AI industry is increasing.
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