News Elon Musk's massive AI data center gets unlocked — xAI gets approved for 150MW of power, enabling all 100,000 GPUs to run concurrently

[Admin]

The Tennessee Valley Authority approved xAI's request for 150MW to power its AI supercomputer used for training Grok.

Elon Musk's massive AI data center gets unlocked — xAI gets approved for 150MW of power, enabling all 100,000 GPUs to run concurrently : Read more

 

[evdjj3j]

"While Memphis Light, Gas & Water (MLGW) upgraded the existing substation to 50MW over the summer, running all 100,000 GPUs concurrently on the site is insufficient."

Huh?

 

[vanadiel007]

I bet he can mine a lot of DOGE with that setup...

 

[Macrotous]

I have doubt with the AI data center being built in 19 days....must be a lot of trials and errors incoming...like Hyperloop, SpaceX...etc.

 

[JTWrenn]

I am more and more coming around to the idea that we should just mandate that all new data centers be renewable powered. Either through taxes on the electricity that must then go to building renewable power, or through straight mandate that the company build it into the project. The growth of energy use of tech is just too great to not do it.

 

[spongiemaster]

"While Memphis Light, Gas & Water (MLGW) upgraded the existing substation to 50MW over the summer, running all 100,000 GPUs concurrently on the site is insufficient."

Huh?

Badly worded. Data center needs 150MW. Upgrading the substation to 50MW is insufficient to power the whole center.

 

[computerguy72]

I have doubt with the AI data center being built in 19 days....must be a lot of trials and errors incoming...like Hyperloop, SpaceX...etc.

His businesses Paypal, Tesla, SpaceX, Boring and others are all highly successful. Hyperloop was an concept he gave out for others to develop. (for free btw)

 

[computerguy72]

Training these models with that much compute is vastly faster than before. Especially now that they've got the efficiency up on the software side for scaling.

 

[das_stig]

I'm surprised that Musk hasn't got involved in SMR reactors, with his record and SpaceX type R&D guys, will have viable solutions in weeks. 😉

 

[jlake3]

I have doubt with the AI data center being built in 19 days....must be a lot of trials and errors incoming...like Hyperloop, SpaceX...etc.

I'm 99% sure there's some games being played with the timeline here. I keep hearing he went from concept to fully operational in 19 days including construction of the factory, and there's zero way they did architecture and permits and inspections that quick. With the supply situation for AI hardware, there's no chance they went from sending Nvidia an RFQ to having 100k units in-hand within 19 days.

In earlier reporting Elon himself claims 122 days, not 19, but that seems to not be counting the time to get the power situation sorted out, possibly not the time spent waiting in Nvidia's order queue, and it's unclear if they were up and running to the same standards others are using for "complete".

Physical installation of pre-built servers that had been ordered long into advance into a building and racks that had already been pre-staged? I could buy 19 days for that. But that's not apples-to-apples with what others are spending 4 years on.

 

[Notton]

His businesses Paypal, Tesla, SpaceX, Boring and others are all highly successful. Hyperloop was an concept he gave out for others to develop. (for free btw)

SpaceX and Tesla got around $4.9 billion in bailout funds, paid by tax payer dollars, before things turned around.

Hyperloops are all massive failures. Most of the test tracks were ripped out.

 

[Horatio_Eternal]

...and everything only for generate stupid AI movies for TicTok or YT Shorts ...

These systems are used for much more than TicTok and YT shorts. I was going to defend it's use to you, but I thought, perhaps, I would let ChatGPT mount it's own defense.

Generative AI is a powerful tool that is used for more than short-form content. It is used in fields like education, healthcare, art, and research. It is used to enable creativity, improve efficiency, and solve complex problems. It is up to how society chooses to harness this technology that will ensure whether it is used ethically and responsibly to drive positive advancements in various industries.

 

[Horatio_Eternal]

SpaceX and Tesla got around $4.9 billion in bailout funds, paid by tax payer dollars, before things turned around.

Hyperloops are all massive failures. Most of the test tracks were ripped out.

I'd really like to see a source on that 4.9 billion in bailout funds figure. I did a little research and I can find no such data to support that claim. Have you done your research?

 

[Mirror16]

MLGW doesn't produce ANY power. Everything they use and supply to others comes from TVA. So "we may have to buy more from TVA" (to supply the Musk Supercomputer) is a ridiculous statement. All of that 150MW will be additional load on TVA's already overstretched generating capacity.