SpaceXAI sues contractor, alleges overbilling and fraud
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August 2026
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SpaceXAI could have a lot more data centers this time next year, Musk says
The company operates four data centers in the Mid-South. Three of those data centers are powered, in part, by a controversial power plant the company built in Southaven.
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SpaceXAI made a lot of news last week. Here’s a breakdown.
Two days last week brought a dizzying array of headlines about SpaceXAI’s operations in the Mid-South. So let’s catch up and break down why it all matters and how it fits into the bigger picture.
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July 2026
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SpaceXAI contractor said company owes it $570M
The CEO of an Ohio-based industrial contractor said SpaceXAI still owes his company about 40% of its roughly $1.5 billion total bill.
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SpaceXAI buys 10 acres in Southaven
The company’s sprawling campus stretches across the Tennessee-Mississippi state line and includes three data centers.
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SpaceXAI has built another Memphis data center
Elon Musk appeared to acknowledge that the company had built a new data center, known as “Minihard.”
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Calkins: It’s time for SpaceXAI to live up to its promise to Memphis kids
A year ago, SpaceXAI committed to give Memphis-Shelby County Schools a gift a local pastor called “game-changing.” So far, MSCS has little to show for it. It’s time for that to change.
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SpaceX’s internet service cuts rates for Memphis-area customers
Starlink, the satellite internet service and key revenue driver for Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is offering discounts to area residents.
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State of Mississippi defends Elon Musk’s Southaven turbines
Mississippi aruges that the lawsuit from the Mississippi NAACP about SpaceX’s private power plant in Southaven is a threat to its ability to regulate the state’s environment.
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June 2026
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SpaceX files $300M worth of permits for Colossus
The permits come as Anthropic, the company behind the artificial intelligence chatbot Claude, is expected to ramp up its usage of Colossus as part of its leasing agreement with SpaceX.
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SpaceX recommits to building water recycling plant
SpaceXAI representatives met with Memphis Mayor Paul Young and MLGW President Doug McGowen earlier this week.
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SpaceX buys AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion in race for an edge over Anthropic and OpenAI
SpaceX said that Cursor will become a wholly owned subsidiary when the deal closes in the third quarter.
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US government says Grok helped it bomb Iran
The legal fight over SpaceX’s private power plant in Southaven, Mississippi, became a matter of national security on Monday, June 15.
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SpaceX says Mississippi regulators approved turbines
In a motion to dismiss a lawsuit, attorneys for SpaceX argued that the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality had signed off on the natural gas turbines and that Mississippi’s air-quality regulations allowed the turbines.
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SpaceX stock soars in debut and makes Elon Musk the first trillionaire
Musk became the world’s first trillionaire after shares of his rocket company SpaceX, which also operates Memphis data centers, soared in Wall Street’s biggest initial public offering of stock.
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April 2026
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Calkins: Time to hold Musk and xAI to ‘the one promise they’ve made.’
“Will Elon Musk follow through on his promise to build a water-recycling facility? It’s up to Memphians to make sure he does.”
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Elon Musk gives timeline on water recycling plant
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.
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March 2026
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XAI properties appraised at $3.5 billion, documents show
The appraisals for the two data centers help to determine how much Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company will pay in property taxes.
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Mississippi regulators approve xAI turbines in Southaven
The vote followed widespread community outcry about the turbines’ impact on the quality of life for neighbors and residents.
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XAI files $659 million building permit
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company continues to pour billions of dollars into Memphis and North Mississippi.
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February 2026
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XAI threatened with lawsuit under Clean Air Act
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company and Texas-based Solaris Energy Infrastructure operate natural gas turbines that do not have an air-emissions permit.
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Elon Musk joins his rocket and AI businesses into a single company
Elon Musk is joining his space exploration and artificial intelligence ventures into a single company before what’s expected to be a massive initial public offering for the business later this year.
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January 2026
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SpaceX and xAI could merge, according to reports
Elon Musk, the CEO of both companies, has spoken about putting artificial intelligence data centers in space in recent months.
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Opinion: The controversy around xAI is far more than environmental — it’s moral
“If we can’t boldly say the ability to create nonconsensual sexual imagery and child sexual-abuse material need to be fully and permanently irradiated from xAI’s products, we are truly lost.”
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With Musk’s Mississippi turbines, controversy meets innovation
While people in the Memphis area grapple with the real-world effects of xAI’s “rapid execution” in Mississippi, many see a company that is innovating its way to become a major player in the worldwide AI race.
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