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Colossus 2 (Whitehaven)

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OperatingNo reception on recordAI confirmedRecord updated September 9, 2026

Colossus 2 (Whitehaven) is an operating data center in Memphis, Tennessee (Shelby County), operated by xAI. The public record puts it at 100 acres, a reported $80 million investment.

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Facility record

Operating

Operator
xAI
Facility type
Data center, AI use confirmed
Location
5400 Tulane Road, Memphis, Shelby County, TN
Coordinates
34.9980, -90.0349 (approximate)
Power capacity
Not established from a public source
Land
100 acres
Investment
$80 million
Announced
Not established from a public source
Utility
Not established from a public source
Cooling
Not established from a public source
Water use
Not established from a public source
Jobs
Not established from a public source
Public subsidy
Not established from a public source
Community reception
No reception on record
Source confidence
Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

  1. September 11, 2026
    Coverage
    xAI has quietly built a massive battery at its Memphis data center hub · Canary Media
  2. January 2026
    Operating
    First major GPU cluster, about 110,000 Nvidia GB200-class processors and roughly 210 MW, came online after a build of about 91 days. Source: Wikipedia
  3. February 2025
    Proposed
    xAI affiliate CTC Properties buys three parcels on Tulane Road in Whitehaven for about $80m. Source: DataCenterDynamics (archived)

Opposition and litigation at this site

Nothing on record as of September 9, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Colossus 2 (Whitehaven) in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.

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Notes on the record

Second, physically separate xAI Memphis site, distinct from the Colossus campus at 3231 Paul R Lowry Road in Boxtown. DCD (2025-03-10) reports xAI affiliate CTC Properties bought three parcels at 5400 Tulane Road in Whitehaven for $80m: an existing 1 million sq ft warehouse plus two adjacent sites totalling 100 acres. The $80m figure is the land purchase price recorded in property records, not total project investment. ADDRESS DISCREPANCY: DCD gives 5400 Tulane Road; Wikipedia gives 5420 Tulane Road. 5400 is recorded because it is the figure in the earlier, better-attributed source, and the coordinates are a geocode of that address, not a confirmed parcel boundary. Status moved to operational on Wikipedia's account that the first major cluster came online around January 2026; Wikipedia is a weak source and this is the reason confidence stays at 'confirmed' only for the site's existence, not for its capacity. No capacityMw is recorded: Memphis Light Gas and Water was asked for a system-impact study for up to 260MW and xAI's Brent Mayo said the site could host up to 350,000 GPUs, but both are stated intentions, and the widely quoted 1 GW / 2 GW figures were not confirmed in any source fetched for this record. POWER IS LARGELY OUT OF STATE: the behind-the-meter gas-turbine plant reported to serve this site sits at Stanton Road in Southaven, MISSISSIPPI, so it is not a Tennessee facility and is deliberately not recorded here. PIN CORRECTED 2026-09-13: the previous coordinate (34.999654,-90.04295) was a bare OSM address POINT for 5400 Tulane Road (place=house, ~11m x 9m, no building geometry), sitting 759 m from the warehouse it was meant to mark. The pin is now the centroid of OSM building way 1386926534, explicitly tagged name="xAI Macrohard Colossus 2", operator=xAI, telecom=data_center, addr:housenumber=5420 (way version 3, last edited 2025-12-31). Its footprint measures 511 m x 176 m = 969,472 sq ft, matching the 1 million sq ft warehouse this record describes to within 3%, and Nominatim resolves "5420 Tulane Road" directly to it. This also RESOLVES the address discrepancy above rather than choosing a side: 5400 is the property-record address for the three-parcel, 100-acre assemblage (kept in location.street, per the cited DCD source), while 5420 is the warehouse building itself. precision remains "approximate": the pin is a crowd-sourced OSM footprint corroborated by Wikipedia, NOT a parcel-confirmed point -- Shelby County assessor records returned 403 and could not be checked. Upgrading to "exact" needs that parcel record.

What the record does not establish, and the document that would

In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.

  • Power capacity in megawatts
  • Cooling method and water use
  • Tax abatements or other public subsidy
  • Permanent jobs promised
  • How the community has received it
  • Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
Power capacity in megawatts
The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
Cooling method and water use
The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
Tax abatements or other public subsidy
The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
Permanent jobs promised
The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
How the community has received it
Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
Which utility serves it
The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.

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Other sites within 30 miles

Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Colossus 2 (Whitehaven) data center in Memphis?

Nothing on record as of September 9, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Colossus 2 (Whitehaven) in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Colossus 2 (Whitehaven) data center?

No lawsuit over Colossus 2 (Whitehaven) appears in the record we track as of September 9, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.

How much water does Colossus 2 (Whitehaven) use?

No water withdrawal figure for Colossus 2 (Whitehaven) is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates Colossus 2 (Whitehaven), and how big is it?

xAI is the operator on record. We hold 5 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 100 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Colossus 2 (Whitehaven)," updated September 9, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/xai-colossus-2-memphis-tn.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/xai-colossus-2-memphis-tn, retrieved September 14, 2026.

Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.

Sources for this record

As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.

  1. 1.Elon Musk's xAI buys 1 million sq ft site for second Memphis data center · DataCenterDynamics (archived) · retrieved September 9, 2026
  2. 2.Colossus (data center) · Wikipedia · retrieved September 9, 2026

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