Elon Musk's xAI Colossus 2 is nowhere near 1 gigawatt capacity, satellite imagery suggests — despite claims, site only has 350 megawatts of cooling capacity
Elon Musk's xAI Colossus 2 data center, despite Musk's claims, is not yet at a 1 gigawatt capacity as suggested by satellite imagery. The facility currently only has 350 megawatts of cooling capacity, not enough for its advertised 550,000 Nvidia Blackwell AI accelerators. The supercomputer, codenamed 'Macrohard,' is expected to reach 1 GW by May, with ongoing equipment upgrades. While Musk hinted at potential future scaling to 1.5 GW or even 2 GW, the current focus is on acquiring more AI servers, power, and cooling systems. Despite the delay in reaching the 1 GW milestone, xAI's Colossus 2 is projected to surpass rival AI data centers in resources for AI training and inference.
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