{"id":984300,"date":"2026-01-09T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984300"},"modified":"2026-01-09T08:17:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:47:37","slug":"elon-musks-xai-to-build-20-billion-dollar-data-center-in-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/09\/elon-musks-xai-to-build-20-billion-dollar-data-center-in-mississippi\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s xAI to build 20 billion dollar data center in Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSON: Elon Musk&#8217;s artificial intelligence company xAI is set to spend $20 billion to build a data center in Southaven, Mississippi, Gov. Tate Reeves announced Thursday, calling it the largest private investment in the state&#8217;s history. <\/p>\n<p>The data center, called MACROHARDRR, is being built in Mississippi\u2019s DeSoto County near Memphis, Tennessee. It will be the company\u2019s third data center in the greater Memphis area. xAI CFO Anthony Armstrong said the cluster of data centers will house \u201cthe world&#8217;s largest supercomputer&#8221; with 2 gigawatts of computing power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSON: Elon Musk&#8217;s artificial intelligence company xAI is set to spend $20 billion to build a data center in Southaven, Mississippi, Gov. Tate Reeves announced Thursday, calling it the largest private investment in the state&#8217;s history. The data center, called MACROHARDRR, is being built in Mississippi\u2019s DeSoto County near Memphis, Tennessee. It will be the company\u2019s third data center in the greater Memphis area. xAI CFO Anthony Armstrong said the cluster of data centers will house \u201cthe world&#8217;s largest supercomputer&#8221; with 2 gigawatts of computing power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}