Why a Memphis community is fighting Elon Musk's supercomputer
Elon Musk, the world's richest man, is building what he says will be the world's largest supercomputer. Its electricity needs will rival those of 100,000 homes.
The supercomputer's neighbors in southwest Memphis, Tennessee, have a problem with that.
The project, part of Musk's xAI artificial intelligence business, sits in an old manufacturing plant on more than 550 acres. Before beginning operations there in July, xAI rolled in flatbed trucks loaded with almost 20 mobile power plants, fueled by natural gas, to help meet its electricity demands.
Residents of the heavily industrial community — already home to an oil refinery, a steel mill and chemical plants — see no upside. They contend that Musk's project has made pollution worse in an area already enveloped in smog.
«We're getting more and more days a year where it is unhealthy for us to go outside,» said KeShaun Pearson, president of Memphis Community Against Pollution and a lifelong resident of the area near the xAI site.
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