Fri
Nov 28 2025
12:11 am
By: Sandra Clark

Regarding the AI facility Elon Musk is putting into Memphis. According to new reporting by Oligarch Watch and Popular Information, Musk is using transformers from China.

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In addition, "In Memphis,

In addition, "In Memphis, where people fear Elon Musk’s supercomputer is making them ill.

Colossus, an xAI computer facility, is blamed for worsening air pollution in a historic black community.
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When completed, Colossus will require 1.1 gigawatts of power, about 40 per cent of the energy consumption of Memphis on an average summer’s day. It will pump one million gallons of water, equivalent to one and a half Olympic-sized swimming pools, to cool its processors each day.
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Despite fears of a 2008-style financial crash, investors are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into AI, and big tech tycoons are competing to build data centres at a frenetic pace across the country.

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