Elon Musk announces 500MW xAI data center in Saudi Arabia
3 days ago
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- 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.