{"id":984370,"date":"2026-01-09T11:29:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984370"},"modified":"2026-01-09T11:29:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:59:01","slug":"elon-musks-xai-to-invest-20-billion-in-mississippi-data-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/09\/elon-musks-xai-to-invest-20-billion-in-mississippi-data-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s xAI to invest $20 billion in Mississippi data centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s AI company xAI is developing a $20 billion data centre in Southaven, Mississippi, Governor Tate Reeves announced in a press release. The project, as per the official statement \u201cwill represent a corporate investment exceeding $20 billion and will create hundreds of permanent jobs throughout DeSoto County.\u201d The data center will be known as Macroharder.<\/p>\n<p>xAI has purchased and is retrofitting a building to house the new data center operations. It is in proximity to xAI\u2019s newly acquired power plant site in Southaven and one of the company\u2019s existing data centers in Tennessee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s AI company xAI is developing a $20 billion data centre in Southaven, Mississippi, Governor Tate Reeves announced in a press release. The project, as per the official statement \u201cwill represent a corporate investment exceeding $20 billion and will create hundreds of permanent jobs throughout DeSoto County.\u201d The data center will be known as Macroharder. xAI has purchased and is retrofitting a building to house the new data center operations. It is in proximity to xAI\u2019s newly acquired power plant site in Southaven and one of the company\u2019s existing data centers in Tennessee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984370","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}