"xAI has acquired and is retrofitting an existing facility in Southaven to serve as a new data center, which will be known as "MACROHARDRR." The site sits near a recently acquired power plant and close to one of xAI's existing data centers in Tennessee, creating a regional cluster designed to support large-scale AI training and inference. Once completed, the Southaven facility is expected to push the company's total computing capacity to nearly 2 GW,"
"Gov. Tate Reeves shared his optimism about the project in a press release. "This record-shattering $20 billion investment is an amazing start to what is sure to be another incredible year for economic development in Mississippi. Today, Elon Musk is bringing xAI to DeSoto County, a project that will transform the region and bring amazing opportunities to its residents for generations. This is the largest economic development project in Mississippi's history," he said."
xAI will invest more than $20 billion to develop a massive data center campus in Southaven, Mississippi, the largest single economic development project in state history. The project retrofits an existing facility named MACROHARDRR and sits near a recently acquired power plant and an xAI data center in Tennessee to form a regional cluster for large-scale AI training and inference. Once completed, the Southaven facility will push company computing capacity to nearly 2 GW. The campus is scheduled to begin operations in February 2026 and is expected to create hundreds of permanent jobs.
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