xAI Colossus 2 (Southaven, Mississippi)
DSouthaven, DeSoto County, Mississippi · US · xAI
Under ConstructionExplicit AI InfrastructureUnder Review
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
StatusUnder Construction
Planned Year2026
Capacity
200 MWD
Capacity estimated based on reported scale comparable to Colossus 1; xAI purchased a ~93,000 sqm former Sears distribution facility in Southaven and announced plans for a second Colossus campus. Exact capacity not disclosed.
Location
34.9890, -90.0100 · US
RegionSouthaven, DeSoto County, Mississippi
Research statusUnder Review
Last verified2026-06-01
Evidence (2 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.
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