October 24, 2026 xAI
SpaceXAI, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, disclosed Thursday that Mississippi environmental regulators say construction started at three of its Southaven sites before required stormwater permits were in place, with potential penalties of up to $6.1 million. The admission came in a...
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October 21, 2026 Memphis
Memphis councilors rejected an 18-month data center moratorium, opting instead for a 135-day pause on new applications and a 90-day review of digital infrastructure projects. The longer proposal followed public opposition and protests at an October 6 council meeting. After a five-and-a-half-hour...
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October 14, 2026 Memphis
Memphis City Council has delayed a vote on a proposed 12-month data center moratorium for a second time, despite protests from more than 100 residents. The pause, proposed by councilor JB Smiley Jr., would allow officials to assess data centers’ social, health, and environmental impacts....
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October 13, 2026 xAI
Memphis city councilors voted 7-5 on Oct. 6 to postpone a decision on a 12-month moratorium on new data centers, the second delay for a measure that would freeze approvals across a market now tied to Elon Musk's AI buildout. The council moved the vote to Oct. 20 after a packed meeting that police...
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August 05, 2026 xAI
SpaceX reported second-quarter results Tuesday, its first quarterly report as a public company. One might have expected the call to focus on rockets and Starlink. But with xAI folded into the company, the call spent only about ten minutes on rockets. The rest of the call was about data center...
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June 23, 2026 Memphis
SpaceXAI plans to resume construction of its Memphis wastewater treatment facility by Q1 2027, nearly a year after the project stalled. The company has informed local officials that the $80 million plant will support its nearby data centers. First announced in February 2025, the facility...
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March 04, 2026 xAI
Elon Musk’s xAI is significantly expanding its "Digital Delta" footprint. As of March 2026, the company has filed a $659 million building permit for a new 312,000-square-foot facility at 5414 Tulane Road in Memphis. This latest development is part of an aggressive scaling strategy to push the...
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February 17, 2026 xAI
The US environmental non-profit Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC), alongside other environmental groups, is preparing to sue xAI over the deployment of unpermitted gas turbines powering its Colossus 2 data center in Memphis, Tennessee.“xAI has once again built a polluting power plant...
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