Musk Plans to Double xAI’s Nvidia GPUs at Colossus Data Center by Year-End

SpaceXAI intends to roughly double its deployment of advanced Nvidia chips at the Colossus 2 data center in Memphis, Tennessee by the end of the year. The massive facility currently utilizes 110,000 Nvidia GB200 chips alongside 440,000 GB300 chips. Musk expects an influx of 220,000 additional GB300 chips by next week, another 220,000 in November, and potentially 220,000 more in late December. The company is concurrently renting out computing capacity from the complex to industry rivals Anthropic and Google to offset costs. The announcement omitted whether the Memphis facility actually has the necessary physical space or electrical grid capacity to power the incoming hardware. “If we get lucky, yet another 220k GB300 by late December.” — Elon Musk