XAI buys a building outside Memphis for a data center - The Information. Elon Musk's xAI has purchased a building for its third supersized data centre outside Memphis, Tennessee, in pursuit of the company's goal of bringing 1 million chips online to power its artificial intelligence models, according to property records and a person with direct knowledge of the project. The expansion plan demonstrates xAI's commitment to building, running, and powering its own data centres, despite the fact that the business is still figuring out how to monetise its Grok AI models. Unlike competitors such as OpenAI and Anthropic, which rely heavily on collaborations with external developers and large cloud providers, xAI has essentially gone it alone.