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Elon Musk announces 500MW xAI data center in Saudi Arabia

3 days ago
  • #AI
  • #Data Center
  • #Elon Musk
  • Elon Musk announces a 500-megawatt data center project in Saudi Arabia in partnership with HUMAIN AI.
  • The data center will be powered by Nvidia’s computing chips.
  • xAI’s existing Colossus 1 data center in Memphis has 300 megawatts of computing power.
  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces a 100-megawatt data center for Amazon Web Services, also powered by Nvidia chips.
  • The announcements follow a new AI Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.
  • Musk envisions a future with humanoid robots and AI data centers in outer space.
  • Musk predicts solar-powered AI satellites could be the lowest-cost way to do AI compute in 4-5 years.