Located in the Memphis neighborhood of Boxtown, Tennessee, xAI’s “Colossus supercomputer” data center has been mired in controversy ever since its inception, pumping noxious gasses into the air and drying out local faucets. For Musk, it’s the key piece of infrastructure behind AI ambitions — the facility keeping him in the AI race with other tech magnates like Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg.
For the predominantly black residents of Boxtown, however, Colossus is turning their neighborhood into a putrid nightmare.
He actually named his AI center “Colossus”? JFC.
names DC Colossus
not actually used to fight nazis
smh false advertising
Apartheid didn’t die. It moved to Boxtown.
Ironically, keeping people and that hunk of shit factory apart might be just the ticket
Article didn’t say but previous articles say it’s the gas turbines.
As I understand, he couldn’t get power contracts so he had to buy any generators he could get and pay top dollar.
