SpaceX is seeking $40 billion in Apollo-led debt to buy Nvidia chips, $30 billion of it investment-grade, the Financial Times reported. The deal would close in 2027, the year most of its $28 billion in AI commitments come due.
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buildConfirmed2 publishers New Jersey fined DataOne $1.07 million, its largest data-center penalty, for running 62 unpermitted gas generators, about 123 MW, at the Vineland AI site. Until the permits clear, that power runs on a regulator's timetable at a campus built to deliver GPU capacity to Microsoft.
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SpaceXAI's 3.3 GWh Memphis figure beats the US battery record by 13 megawatt-hours
A SpaceXAI developer told the TVA board that Colossus 2 holds 3.3 GWh of storage, the Memphis utility's chief executive put it at 2,000 MW behind the meter, and the board approved a direct grid hookup the same day.
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A portability rule put 1,775 megawatts of gas turbines next to a Southaven neighborhood
The turbines feeding SpaceXAI's Colossus 2 went in under a Mississippi rule that asks whether equipment is portable rather than what it emits, which is why the fight is over a legal category and not over anyone's measurements.
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xAI's Memphis battery runs two hours at its top rated output
Satellite imagery put roughly 2.8 GWh of Tesla Megapacks at xAI's Colossus 2 site, the largest grid battery in the country, and the roughly $1bn xAI and SpaceX have spent since 2024 averages near $500m a year.
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Satellite data puts Colossus 2's turbine field at 35 times a nearby plant's NOx rate
An MIT team used NASA's TEMPO satellite to estimate that temporary turbines in Mississippi emitted about 730 kilograms of nitrogen oxides an hour. SpaceXAI supplied a court submission saying local monitors have recorded no notable increase.
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SpaceX shifts AI data-center strategy toward power and cooling redundancy as it races to meet $920m-a-month Google deadline
Cryptopolitan, citing The Information, says sites in Tennessee and Mississippi ran for months without backup power, and Google can trim payments proportionally if about 110,000 GPUs miss a September 30 handover.
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