Inside the Memphis Chamber of Commerce’s push for Elon Musk’s xAI data center

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https://mlk50.com/2025/08/22/xai-colossus-elon-musk-chamber-memphis/

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36128488

In the face of intense public opposition, the city’s Chamber of Commerce has gone to unusual lengths to promote Musk’s xAI facility: sending out a mailer, for the first time in recent memory, that includes misleading facts.

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tal@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

data centers and supercomputing facilities, which consume voracious amounts of electricity and water

Memphis is on the Mississippi. Evaporating the volume of the Mississippi at Memphis with graphics cards would be a pretty impressive feat.

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snoflo.org/flow/report/tennessee/

TENNESSEE FLOW REPORT

August 22 2025

Streamflow levels across Tennessee are currently 92.0% of normal, with the Mississippi River At Memphis reporting the highest discharge in the state with 354000cfs

345,000 cubic feet of water per second is a pretty substantial amount of water.

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