xAI Colossus 2 (Southaven, Mississippi)
CSouthaven, DeSoto County, Mississippi · US · xAI
OperationalExplicit AI InfrastructurePartially Verified
Environment
Water Stress
lowB
WRI Aqueduct 4.0, 2023, 2023
Aquifer Stress
Not DisclosedND
Grid Carbon Intensity
440 gCO₂/kWhA
EPA eGrid 2022, SRSO subregion, 2022
Grid RegionEntergy Mississippi
Drought Risk
low
NOAA Palmer Drought Severity Index, 2023
Environmental Review
pending
DeSoto County, Mississippi permit records
Facility
CompanyxAI
CategoryExplicit AI Infrastructure
StatusOperational
Year Opened2025
Capacity
1000 MWC
Roughly 200 MW was online within six months of construction start; xAI reports secured power to scale beyond 1 GW and targets ~1.2 GW for 555,000 GPUs across the cluster (January 2026). A gas turbine plant ~6 miles away can feed a further ~245 MW.
Location
34.9890, -90.0100 · US
RegionSouthaven, DeSoto County, Mississippi
Research statusPartially Verified
Last verified2026-07-18
Evidence (3 sources)
Elon Musk's xAI buys 1 million sq ft site for second data center in Southaven, MississippiHigh trust
Journalism2025-03-01Data Center Dynamics
Confirms Southaven purchase of former Sears facility, scale (~93,000 sqm), and second campus purpose.
xAI purchased a former Sears distribution facility of approximately 93,000 square metres (1 million sq ft) in Southaven, Mississippi, for a second Colossus AI campus. The Southaven site is immediately south of the Tennessee border in the Memphis metro area. Mississippi Governor announced $20B+ xAI investment in the state.
Journalism2026-01-15Introl
Documents GPU procurement scale (555k GPUs, ~$18B) and combined 1 GW capacity target across Memphis + Southaven campuses.
xAI has purchased approximately 555,000 Nvidia H100 and H200 GPUs worth ~$18B for combined Colossus Memphis and Southaven deployments, targeting a total cluster exceeding 1 GW of AI compute capacity across both sites.
Journalism2026
Operational status, ~200 MW online in six months, >1 GW secured power
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