Data Center Atlas
xAI MACROHARDRR data center (Southaven)
Operational
United States · 1 project · Last reported
Summary
Third xAI data center in the Memphis area, made by retrofitting a warehouse of roughly 800,000 square feet that xAI bought in late 2025 in Southaven, Mississippi, just south of Colossus 2 across the state line. Mississippi's governor announced it in January 2026 as an investment of more than $20 billion, the largest economic development project in state history, supported by a state sales and use tax exemption and local fee-in-lieu agreements. Musk said it would lift Colossus training compute to about 2 GW, and a July 2026 report relaying his comments said it holds 220,000 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs.
Source record as of 2026-07-31 · Details and sources
Location
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Approximate site reference; the exact facility position is unverified.
Projects (1)
xAI MACROHARDRR data center (Southaven)
Operational last observed as of · Reported status
Location: Southaven, DeSoto County, Mississippi, US. Center of the OpenStreetMap building tagged 'xAI Macrohardrr' on Stateline Road West, taken from this project's OpenStreetMap data center layer (no geocoder call), about 0.5 km south of the Colossus 2 building. This matches Cleanview's address of 2400 Stateline Road, Southaven, and WREG's description of the warehouse as just south of Colossus 2. Office of Governor Tate Reeves; WREG (via Yahoo News); Cleanview
Use: Ai training
Capacity, investment and other figures
| Measure | Value | Scope | As of | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Investment | more than 20,000,000,000 USD | Announced · Campus | 2026-01-08 | Office of Governor Tate Reeves; WREG (via Yahoo News) | |
| Floor area | about 810,000 sq_ft | Under construction · Campus | 2026-01-08 | Size of the warehouse being retrofitted; Converge Digest and Cleanview give about 810,000 square feet and WREG gives 800,000. | Converge Digest; Cleanview; WREG (via Yahoo News) |
| Accelerators | 220,000 count | Installed · Campus | 2026-07-31 | Elon Musk's figure as relayed by WMC in July 2026; not confirmed in a company filing. No Colossus 2 figure is repeated here. | WMC Action News 5 |
Companies and organizations
| Name | Role | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| xAI | Developer | Office of Governor Tate Reeves; WREG (via Yahoo News) | |
| Mississippi Development Authority | Government | Approved the project for the state Data Center Incentive sales and use tax exemption. | Office of Governor Tate Reeves |
| City of Southaven | Government | Supports the project through a fee-in-lieu agreement. | Office of Governor Tate Reeves |
| DeSoto County | Government | Supports the project through a fee-in-lieu agreement. | Office of Governor Tate Reeves |
Timeline
| Date | Event | Actual or planned | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12 | Site acquired | Actual | Musk disclosed the purchase of an 800,000-square-foot Southaven warehouse on December 30, 2025; the governor's release says xAI bought an existing building for the project. | WREG (via Yahoo News); Office of Governor Tate Reeves |
| 2026-01-08 | Announced | Actual | Office of Governor Tate Reeves; WREG (via Yahoo News) | |
| 2026-02 | First operational | Planned | Target stated at the January 2026 announcement; no source reviewed confirms the actual start date. | Office of Governor Tate Reeves; Converge Digest |
Status is inferred from a July 2026 WMC report that calls Macro-harder an existing site equipped with 220,000 GB300 GPUs, relaying Elon Musk; no source reviewed confirms when operations began. Converge Digest labels the building 'Colossus 2 (MACROHARDRR)', and analyst estimates for Colossus 2 (xai-colossus-2-memphis) may include it; no Colossus 2 figure is repeated here. The 2 GW figure in the announcements refers to xAI's combined Colossus compute, not this building alone.
Related projects: xai colossus memphis, xai colossus 2 memphis
Sources for these details
- Tech leader xAI investing more than $20 billion in Southaven — Office of Governor Tate Reeves; 2026-01-08
- xAI investing $20B in Southaven, Mississippi facility, governor says — WREG (via Yahoo News); 2026-01-08
- xAI Commits $20B to 2-GW AI Data Center in Mississippi — Converge Digest; 2026-01-08 · Archived source
- xAI announces fourth data center; turbines to be removed from Southaven site — WMC Action News 5; 2026-07-31
- Colossus 1 & 2 | Behind-the-Meter Data Centers — Cleanview; publication date not stated
- Companies
Source and location review
- Status source
- xAI announces fourth data center; turbines to be removed from Southaven site evidence row
WMC Action News 5 · published 2026-07-31 · News - Locator
- Approximate site reference · Compiled location reference · approximate_site evidence
- Source checks
Not reviewed against imagery not_
reviewed
No imagery review is recorded for this project. Its status rests only on the dated authoritative source. · no independent imagery verificationStatus age at review: 88 days before the data update on 2026-10-27
Location details
- Coordinates
- 34.99350, -90.03420
- Geometry licence
- source-terms-not-recorded
- Use scope
- Approximate site reference
- Scope class
- approximate_site
- Authority
- Compiled location reference
- Source entity
- Project
- Method
- imported_reference_point
- Derivation
- imported_reference_point
- Precision scope
- Center of the OpenStreetMap building tagged 'xAI Macrohardrr' on Stateline Road West, taken from this project's OpenStreetMap data center layer (no geocoder call), about 0.5 km south of the Colossus 2 building. This matches Cleanview's address of 2400 Stateline Road, Southaven, and WREG's description of the warehouse as just south of Colossus 2.
- Horizontal uncertainty
Not reported
The source record provides no measured horizontal uncertainty; original coordinate precision and note are preserved.
- Geometry evidence
- dbe7d792
A locator places the site on the map. It is not a building footprint, a construction extent or a surveyed boundary unless the use scope is an official boundary, and even then it is a parcel or permit boundary.
Evidence
Sources are linked, not redistributed; each keeps its own terms. An archived copy is a lookup for the Wayback Machine capture nearest the retrieval date and may be unavailable or differ from what was reviewed. Each hash states what it covers; imported factual records are not publisher-page captures.
| Title | Publisher | Roles | Published | Retrieved | Licence | Attribution | Content hash (SHA-256) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colossus 1 & 2 | Behind-the-Meter Data Centers Archived copy | Cleanview Analyst report | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Metric: Floor Area | not stated | source-terms-not-recorded | Cleanview | 119588f3b296f68107f972ee5a74f003f069a5f0d8929f015d9d7567109a8f5cFactual source record; not the publisher page | |
| Tech leader xAI investing more than $20 billion in Southaven Archived copy | Office of Governor Tate Reeves Government record | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Metric: Investment, Milestone: Announced, Milestone: First Operational, Milestone: Site Acquired, Role: Developer, Role: Government | source-terms-not-recorded | Office of Governor Tate Reeves | 7abe26eb5d4571b855322b62f149ffcb31282a11ae491c1dceb6a0b668766f33Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| xAI announces fourth data center; turbines to be removed from Southaven site Archived copy | WMC Action News 5 News | Imported: Record, Imported: Status, Metric: Accelerators | source-terms-not-recorded | WMC Action News 5 | 533ff61a3e5594631bdc9c44a3fdd03a0eb8a86344c0b459768d6fe8cb5ebf29Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| xAI Commits $20B to 2-GW AI Data Center in Mississippi Archived copy | Converge Digest Trade publication | Imported: Record, Metric: Floor Area, Milestone: First Operational | source-terms-not-recorded | Converge Digest | 5184b40f878a461e3f49aae4fa73df387d28e5a05383a62f4b6e6ec9d7907612Factual source record; not the publisher page | ||
| xAI investing $20B in Southaven, Mississippi facility, governor says Archived copy | WREG (via Yahoo News) News | Imported: Geometry, Imported: Record, Metric: Floor Area, Metric: Investment, Milestone: Announced, Milestone: Site Acquired, Role: Developer | source-terms-not-recorded | WREG (via Yahoo News) | bff24312de70f29f592a49425454339fbcdc5c21fbefa4bcdf9b145f99232cd2Factual source record; not the publisher page |
Cite this site
Kyars, K. (2026). xAI MACROHARDRR data center (Southaven) [site vcc-site-64d29806f5007969e3b9]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-64d29806f5007969e3b9/
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