As Ted Townsend tells it, Elon Musk took roughly a week to decide to build the new supercomputer for his AI startup, xAI, in Memphis. After a whirlwind few days of negotiations in March, Musk and his team --- which included representatives …

Down a long, flat road in the industrial zone of South Memphis, a newly occupied factory is humming with activity. It's a low-level white building that spans the length of several football fields. Workers in fluorescent green vests excavate…

The regional power authority in Memphis approved a request for enough energy to power a small city. Elon Musk's AI company will use it for a massive supercomputer. The project was a surprise to many.

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The regional power …

KeShaun Pearson took a seat in front of the Shelby county board of commissioners in Memphis, Tennessee, on Wednesday morning. In the gallery behind him, a small group of people held up signs that said “Our air = our lives” and “Our water, O…

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) company is stirring controversy in Memphis, Tennessee. That’s where he’s building a massive supercomputer to power his company xAI. Community residents and environmental activists say that since the …

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has been granted a permit to run methane gas generators at its massive datacenter in Memphis, Tennessee. The county health department approved the permit for the 15 machines late on Wednesday,…

Class dynamics influence the environments in which humans live, yet when this topic arises, it's almost always framed as a global issue. For example, anthropologist Jason Hickel recently published a now-viral map displaying how, by the year…