Musk is building a power plant to run 660,000 new AI chips.
Elon Musk said on Friday that his Memphis cluster will take 660,000 more Nvidia chips by late December. They arrive in three batches of 220,000, and the first is meant to run next week. SpaceXAI is building a 1.2-gigawatt power plant on the site to feed the machines.
Why it mattersOne company is now buying more computing power than many countries can supply. Who pays for the electricity to run it is still an open question.
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