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Permitted (inferred) Shelby County · TN

xAI Colossus

Memphis (Shelby County), Shelby County, Tennessee

Approximate area

A permit or approval is on record. Construction may not have started.

Status inferred from agw source doc (Sep 8, 2026). No filing states it in as many words.

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The location is approximate, so it is drawn as an area: a circle 500 metres around the point a directory gives. The directory does not say how that point was made, and the radius is our choice, not a measured error. Other campuses on record nearby are drawn around it.
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Status
Permitted (inferred)
Owner
Likely x-corp
Capacity
2,000 MW
Location known to
Approximate area
County
Shelby County
State
Tennessee
Electric utility
City of Memphis - (TN)
Grid operator
not stated

Location and nearby

xAI Colossus is on record as permitted in Shelby County, Tennessee. A record puts its capacity at 2,000 MW. 17 other campuses are on record within 25 miles, 4 of them within 5 miles. The nearest is 0.15 mi away, measured between approximate points.

Nearest of each kind: Operating 0.36 mi Under construction 5.4 mi Permitted 0.15 mi Proposed 4.8 mi

Nearest campuses on record

What is on record

Owner

Likely x-corp

A tracker names this operator and cites a source we have not read ourselves, so it is not traced to a record.

What the signal was

  1. cited document names the operator

    x-corp

    Source cited by AI GridWatch for xAI Colossus: https://earthjustice.org/case/xai-illegal-gas-power-plant-data-center-colossus · Aug 7, 2026

Filed by: xAI

Capacity
2,000 MW from agw
Diesel generators
No air permit found in the records we collect
Water
Not collected. State water withdrawal permits are not in this build.
Electric utility
City of Memphis - (TN)
Also recorded as
xAI

How the status changed

  1. Permitted Aug 7, 2026 inferred

    AI GridWatch stage/outcome: approved|approved; source press

    Source cited by AI GridWatch for xAI Colossus: https://earthjustice.org/case/xai-illegal-gas-power-plant-data-center-colossus

About this data

Evidence

Primary record

A government filing, a federal permit, an assessor parcel or the operator’s own page.

Location known to

Approximate area

Approximate. Good enough for a neighbourhood, not for a driveway.

Independent sources

1

cited filing. Directories count once between them, because they copy each other.

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Where this comes from

2 source records back this page. Each row is a document we retrieved and kept, so a claim can be checked against the original.

Document Role Row Date
Source cited by AI GridWatch for xAI Colossus: https://earthjustice.org/case/xai-illegal-gas-power-plant-data-center-colossus US-TN Context url=https://earthjustice.org/case/xai-illegal-gas-power-plant-data-center-colossus Aug 7, 2026 retrieved by us
agw_projects tracker export (AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0.) US Context id=xai-colossus-memphis-tn Aug 7, 2026 last changed on the server

AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0.

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