xAI to Move Gas Power Plant to the U.S. for New Data Center with 1 Million GPUs

Dylan Patel, founder of the analytical firm SemiAnalysis, shared that, according to his sources, xAI is planning to acquire a gas power plant to support its new data center, which will feature 1 million Nvidia Blackwell accelerators, and transport it across the ocean to the United States. This information was later confirmed by xAI’s founder, Elon Musk, on the social platform X.

Patel mentioned that xAI is currently training its models on the Colossus cluster located in Memphis, Tennessee, which contains 200,000 accelerators. During the construction of this facility, the company faced challenges related to power supply and had to urgently deploy up to 35 gas turbines with a total output of up to 300 MW, leading to complications with the health department.

According to Patel, xAI has already acquired another factory in Memphis, which will have sufficient space for 125,000 servers, each equipped with eight Nvidia Blackwell accelerators. SemiAnalysis estimates the net GPU consumption at 1.0–1.4 GW, while including auxiliary hardware, the supercomputer’s energy demand could reach between 1.4 and 1.96 GW. This amount of power would be enough to supply around 1.9 million households. Patel did not specify the country where the power plant was purchased or the timeline for its transportation to the U.S.

To finance the million accelerators, xAI secured a new funding round of $10 billion in early July and is simultaneously negotiating to raise an additional «tens of billions» at a valuation of $150 billion. Estimates from SemiAnalysis and investment banks suggest that the park consisting of one million B200/GB200 accelerators will cost between $12-15 billion, with an additional $8-10 billion needed for the servers, structured cabling, and cooling systems, as well as approximately $3 billion for logistics and the relocation of the gas power plant.

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