Claude AI to use xAI’s Memphis data center
Anthropic, the company behind the widely successful Claude chatbot, would use all of Colossus’ computing capacity.
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Anthropic, the company behind the widely successful Claude chatbot, would use all of Colossus’ computing capacity.
Demonstrators outside xAI’s Colossus I data center in Southwest Memphis voice concerns about air pollution in the area.
The Daily Memphian reported the water recycling facility, a key promise the company made to local leaders and residents, was “on an indefinite pause.” Without it, xAI uses fresh drinking water to cool its Colossus data center.
Without the plant’s completion, xAI and TVA could continue drawing billions of gallons of freshwater from the aquifer, which also supplies the region’s drinking water.
During the groundbreaking, no one said xAI primary owner Elon Musk’s name aloud, but he was referenced multiple times.
Billionaire Elon Musk shed new light last week on exactly what technology his artificial intelligence company has in Memphis, and what his plans are for the future of xAI.
Progress on xAI’s water-recycling facility has slowed to a bureaucratic trickle, but construction could come like a flood in a matter of weeks.
XAI is being taxed on $2.2 billion in investments, not the $12 billion the Greater Memphis Chamber touted throughout the past year.
Deemed Colossus, the xAI supercomputer is the “most powerful AI training system in the world,” Elon Musk wrote on X Monday, Sept. 2.
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