Southaven mayor on xAI, more MLGW customers eligible for cutoff and 2026 campaign updates
Southaven Mayor Darren Musselwhite speaks at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at BankPlus Amphitheater on April 20, 2023. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Southaven Mayor Darren Musselwhite recently acknowledged Elon Musk’s xAI buying the former Duke Energy plant at 2875 Stanton Road.
In a Friday, Aug. 1, blog post, Musselwhite wrote the site will likely provide power to xAI’s second Memphis data center at 5420 Tulane Road in Memphis. That site is about 1 mile north of the former Duke Energy.
“After acquiring their second facility just north of the Mississippi state line, property in Southaven’s industrial zone became ideal for further expansion,” Musselwhite wrote in the post on Southaven’s website. “The former Duke Energy facility will become functional again after decades of vacancy to meet the electricity demands of these artificial intelligence operations.”
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Samuel Hardiman
Samuel Hardiman is an enterprise and investigative reporter who focuses on local government and politics. He began his journalism career at the Tulsa World in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he covered business and, later, K-12 education. Hardiman came to Memphis in 2018 to join the Memphis Business Journal, covering government and economic development. He then served as the Memphis Commercial Appeal’s city hall reporter and later joined The Daily Memphian in 2023. His current work focuses on Elon Musk’s xAI, regional energy needs and how Memphis and Shelby County government spend taxpayer dollars.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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