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 reporter who focuses on government and politics. He began his career at the Tulsa World where he covered business and 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 Commercial Appeal’s city hall reporter and later joined The Daily Memphian in 2023. His current work focuses on the intersection of government, public policy, influence and how public dollars are spent.
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