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648-acre Data Center Proposed in Clarksdale, Mississippi

A 648-acre data center has been proposed in Clarksdale, northern Mississippi. On Monday, city officials held an informational meeting on a potential project planned for agricultural land between the Sunflower River and Tallahatchie Street.The city’s board of commissioners had considered a rezo...

March 17, 2026

Mississippi

Musk’s xAI Approved for 41 Natural gas Turbines in Mississippi to Power Colossus Data Centers

Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has received approval to install 41 natural gas turbines at a site in Mississippi, generating up to 1.2GW to power its local data centers.The turbines, which will be installed at a former Duke Energy power plant site in Southaven, will be used to power xAI’s Colossus...

March 11, 2026

Mississippi

Elon Musk’s xAI to Spend $659M on New Memphis Data Center Facility

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 C...

March 04, 2026

xAI

Mississippi Governor Labels Data Center Moratoriums as “Civilizational Suicide”

The governor of Mississippi hit back at calls to pause data center construction across the US. Governor Tate Reeves claimed that those seeking a data center moratorium were "yearning to submit our society to outside forces: mobs, international councils, or communist China.""I understand indivi...

February 24, 2026

Mississippi

xAI faces legal action from SELC over gas turbine use at Memphis facility

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 wi...

February 17, 2026

xAI

xAI Confirms New Data Center in Mississippi

Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has confirmed it is set to build a third data center in Mississippi, and will invest more than $20 billion in the state. The data center in Southhaven, DeSoto County, which will be known as MACROHARDRR – an apparent dig at Microsoft – will supply compute power for th...

January 09, 2026

Mississippi

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