While Tesla’s stock has seen a sharp decline in recent weeks, Elon Musk has quietly been working to expand his influence in a different area of tech: AI supercomputing. Recent reports have revealed that Musk’s AI startup, xAI, has been quietly building a new data center in Atlanta. The facility will house around 12,000 Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs), crucial chips that power AI computation.

While the Atlanta data center is modest compared to Musk’s supercomputer project in Memphis, nicknamed “Colossus,” which boasts 100,000 GPUs, its construction is part of a broader trend in the tech world that has been advancing largely under the radar. 

Last December, Meta announced its plans to build a $10 billion data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana. In February, OpenAI began constructing a facility in Abilene, Texas, while scoping out potential sites in 16 other states, as they seek to invest $500 billion in AI infrastructure over the next........

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