Musk: 2 More SpaceXAI Data Centers Near Southaven by December
Elon Musk says two more SpaceXAI data centers tied to the company’s Colossus 2 supercomputer campus in the Southaven and Memphis area are under construction and should be running before the end of the year. In posts on X on Saturday, Oct. 31, Musk gave the new clusters nicknames, “Gun Range” and “Spam,” and said each would hold about 200,000 or more of Nvidia’s newest AI chips.
The announcement is the latest sign that the artificial intelligence buildout along the Mississippi-Tennessee state line is still growing, even as neighbors, regulators and courts continue to scrutinize the project.
What Musk said about the new SpaceXAI data centers
According to Musk’s posts, which were reported by Action News 5 and the tech site TeslaNorth:
- Gun Range is named for a former local police department gun range that Musk said the company bought. He said it will be set up like the company’s existing “Macroharder” and “Minihard” clusters, with roughly 220,000 Nvidia GB300 chips configured for training AI models.
- Spam is named for a building Musk said was formerly used to house Hormel products. He said it will hold about 200,000 GB300 chips configured for inference, the work of running AI models after they are trained, which he said needs simpler networking and less than half the fiber.
- Timeline: Musk said Gun Range is tracking to be operational by the end of November and Spam in December.
Musk also said he had walked the entire Colossus 2 site and that the campus is expected to have around 1.2 million Nvidia Blackwell-generation chips in total by the end of the year. Musk did not give street addresses for either new cluster in his posts, and the figures have not been independently verified.
A fast-growing footprint in Southaven
The company, formerly known as xAI and now operating as SpaceXAI, has rapidly expanded in north DeSoto County over the past year. Its Southaven operations include a power plant on Stanton Road, where gas turbines supply electricity to the data centers across the state line in Memphis.
In recent weeks the company, through its parent MZX Tech LLC, has bought homes in neighborhoods near the power plant, leased a warehouse along Highway 51 and continued acquiring property. Contractors have also filed liens worth more than $220 million in DeSoto County over work on the project.
Legal and regulatory pressure continues
The expansion comes as SpaceXAI faces several challenges tied to its Southaven turbines:
- A federal judge on Oct. 30 denied the company’s motion to dismiss an air pollution lawsuit brought by the NAACP and environmental groups, who argue the turbines have run without proper permits.
- The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality is seeking about $6.1 million in potential penalties related to the company’s Southaven sites.
- Residents near the power plant have filed a proposed class-action lawsuit over turbine noise, and some neighbors say the company’s home buyout offers have been too low.
Supporters, including Southaven city leaders, point to the investment and tax base the project brings to DeSoto County. Critics say the pace of growth has outrun oversight and left nearby residents dealing with noise, traffic and air quality concerns.
What’s next
If Musk’s timeline holds, Gun Range could come online within weeks, with Spam following in December. DeSoto County News will continue to follow the SpaceXAI data centers, including any new permits, city approvals or court rulings connected to the expansion.
Related: Judge Denies xAI Bid to Toss Southaven Turbines Lawsuit | SpaceXAI Liens Top $220M as Contractor Files in DeSoto Court
Source: Action News 5
