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xAI Southaven

Southaven, DeSoto County, Mississippi · All 5 xAI sites · Every xAI case on our tracker

OperatingIn litigationAI confirmedRecord updated September 9, 2026

xAI Southaven is an operating data center in Southaven, Mississippi (DeSoto County), operated by xAI. The public record puts it at announced January 2026, 2 GW planned, a reported $20 billion investment. It is or has been the subject of litigation over its siting, permitting, or operation.

Every line on this page traces to a public source listed at the bottom. Where a figure was looked for and not found, the row says so. A blank is never a zero.

What our reporting adds

2 of our case files document this site. Pending, U.S. District Court, N.D. Mississippi (filed June 8, 2026). Pending, U.S. District Court, N.D. Mississippi. The base record lists the reception as contested; the case record sets it to litigation.

Facility record

Operating

Operator
xAI
Facility type
Data center, AI use confirmed
Location
Southaven, DeSoto County, MS
Coordinates
34.9930, -89.9740
Power capacity
2 GW planned
Land
Not established from a public source
Investment
$20 billion
Announced
January 2026
Utility
xAI (self-generated, behind-the-meter)
Power source
On site gas
On site generation
495 MW
Cooling
Not established
Water use
Not established from a public source
Jobs
145 permanent
Public subsidy
Mississippi Data Center Incentive (sales and use tax exemption on computing equipment and software), Mississippi / City of Southaven / DeSoto County, 2026
Community reception
In litigation
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. February 2026
    Operating
    Expected fully operational February 2026; xAI's third Mid-South facility alongside Colossus One and Two in Memphis
  2. January 2026
    Proposed
    Governor Reeves and xAI announce $20B+ Southaven data center investment; described as largest private-sector investment in Mississippi history Source: Office of the Governor, Mississippi
  3. January 2026
    Under construction
    Retrofit of former GXO Logistics warehouse (810,000 sq ft) at 2400 Stateline Road

Opposition and litigation at this site

Yes. xAI Southaven in Southaven, DeSoto County, Mississippi is or has been the subject of litigation over its siting, permitting, or operation. Pending, U.S.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: in litigation means the facility is or has been the subject of a lawsuit related to its siting, permitting, or operation.

Pending, U.S. District Court, N.D. Mississippi (filed June 8, 2026). Gas turbine power plant serving xAI's Colossus 2 data center, Southaven, Mississippi. Pending, U.S. District Court, N.D. Mississippi. Safe and Sound Coalition (lifelong residents) cited lack of transparency; NAACP raised environmental concerns about pollution affecting Southaven and neighboring Memphis communities; residents allege public was not consulted prior to expansion.

Source: Mississippi Free Press

Power and water

Private behind-the-meter gas-turbine plant at a former Duke Energy site powering Colossus 2. MS DEQ permitted 41 turbines (~1.2 GW ceiling, Mar 2026); ~495 MW tied to 27 disclosed turbines, up to 59 reportedly run pre-permit. Subject to NAACP/SELC/Earthjustice litigation over unpermitted operation.

The City of Southaven addresses water supply but not the heat-rejection method: xAI is described as a metered municipal customer under "strict capacity management" with its own recycling solutions planned. No source fetched this run identifies evaporative, closed-loop or dry cooling, so coolingType stays unknown rather than being inferred from the liquid-cooled GB300 racks (rack-level cooling is heat CAPTURE, not heat rejection).

Public money on the record

ProgramAmountGranted byYear
Mississippi Data Center Incentive (sales and use tax exemption on computing equipment and software)Not establishedMississippi / City of Southaven / DeSoto County2026

People and entities in the record

  • Elon Musk · founder via xAI

    Founder of xAI, the company building this data center; named as such in the Mississippi Governor's Office announcement of the Southaven investment.

    Source

Notes on the record

Address: 2400 Stateline Road, Southaven, MS 38671 (near Tennessee border); coordinates are approximate for that address. The $20B investment figure covers total xAI Mississippi commitments including adjacent power plant site, not only this building. Facility is distinct from the already-tracked Colossus supercomputer clusters in Memphis, TN. Combined with Memphis facilities, xAI aims for nearly 2 GW total compute capacity. Fix: jobs.sourceIndex corrected from 0 to 1; the specific 145-person figure is reported by Mississippi Free Press (source 1), not the governor's press release (source 0) which states only 'hundreds of permanent jobs.'

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.

  • Land area
Which document closes each gap
Land area
The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.

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Our reporting on this site

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 xAI Southaven data center in Southaven?

Yes. xAI Southaven in Southaven, DeSoto County, Mississippi is or has been the subject of litigation over its siting, permitting, or operation. Pending, U.S.

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the xAI Southaven data center?

Yes. This site is recorded as being in litigation. The case, the court, and the filings we hold are listed on this page under the timeline and the sources.

How much water does xAI Southaven use?

No water withdrawal figure for xAI Southaven is on record here. Cooling is recorded as unknown, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates xAI Southaven, and how big is it?

xAI is the operator on record. We hold 5 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 2 GW.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "xAI Southaven," updated September 9, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/xai-southaven-ms.

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-southaven-ms, 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.Tech leader xAI investing more than $20 billion in Southaven · Office of the Governor, Mississippi · retrieved July 6, 2026
  2. 2.As Musk's xAI Data Centers Encroach on Southaven, North Mississippi Residents Push Back · Mississippi Free Press · retrieved July 6, 2026
  3. 3.xAI confirms new data center in Mississippi, Elon Musk pledges $20bn investment · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 6, 2026
  4. 4.Mississippi Today: state officials approve permit for 41 gas turbines at xAI's Southaven data center · retrieved July 24, 2026
  5. 5.Earthjustice: Illegal Pollution from Data Center Power Plants, xAI case page · retrieved July 24, 2026
  6. 6.Tech leader xAI investing more than $20 billion in Southaven · Office of the Governor, Mississippi · retrieved August 16, 2026
  7. 7.Mayor's Report, xAI SOUTHAVEN (Continued Expansion)…, January 7, 2026 · City of Southaven, Mississippi · retrieved September 9, 2026
  8. 8.Haley v. xAI: 10,000 Southaven Neighbors Sue Over the Roar of 57 Gas Turbines · SueDataCenters.org · retrieved September 2, 2026
  9. 9.Mississippi Free Press: Southaven residents sue xAI, citing near-constant noise from gas turbines (June 2026) · mississippifreepress.org · retrieved September 2, 2026
  10. 10.The Hill: SpaceX, xAI face data center noise class-action lawsuit · thehill.com · retrieved September 2, 2026
  11. 11.ClassAction.org: xAI, SpaceX hit with class action lawsuit over data center power plant noise in Southaven, Mississippi · classaction.org · retrieved September 2, 2026
  12. 12.Crowell & Moring: Data center noise litigation 2026, plaintiffs' bar targets AI infrastructure with nuisance and negligence claims (July 28, 2026) · crowell.com · retrieved September 2, 2026
  13. 13.WilmerHale: Data centers in court, the emerging wave of nuisance, environmental, and land-use litigation (July 13, 2026) · wilmerhale.com · retrieved September 2, 2026
  14. 14.NAACP v. xAI: The Clean Air Act Fight Over Colossus's Gas Turbines · SueDataCenters.org · retrieved August 28, 2026
  15. 15.SELC: Civil rights group sues xAI for illegal pollution from data center power plant (April 2026) · selc.org · retrieved August 28, 2026
  16. 16.Earthjustice: NAACP asks court for emergency action to stop illegal air pollution from xAI's data center power plant (May 2026) · earthjustice.org · retrieved August 28, 2026
  17. 17.Mississippi Today: Data center turbines in Southaven (April 15, 2026) · mississippitoday.org · retrieved August 28, 2026
  18. 18.SELC: Memphis health leaders grant air permit for xAI data center (July 2025) · selc.org · retrieved August 28, 2026
  19. 19.SELC: Groups appeal permit for xAI's South Memphis data center (2025) · selc.org · retrieved August 28, 2026

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