{"id":9353,"date":"2026-04-21T03:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/9353\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T03:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:30:21","slug":"xai-files-construction-permit-for-new-whitehaven-building-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/9353\/","title":{"rendered":"xAI files construction permit for new Whitehaven building | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MEMPHIS, Tenn. &#8211; xAI has plans to build a 312,000-square-foot building west of the company\u2019s Whitehaven supercomputer, according to construction permits viewed by FOX13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The $20 million construction project is east of Tulane Road on the company\u2019s campus of supercomputers. The building, zoned as commercial office space, would be 48 feet tall, according to the permits. FOX13 asked xAI what the purpose of the new space would be, but the company did not respond by deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">History of the site<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">xAI purchased empty warehouse space on the Whitehaven site last year to expand the computing capabilities of \u201cGrok,\u201d the company\u2019s artificial intelligence chatbot. Prior to that, the company had one supercomputer in Southwest Memphis, known as \u201cColossus 1.\u201d The first Whitehaven building, known as \u201cColossus 2,\u201d is just north of the state line.\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.fox13memphis.com\/news\/xai-buys-southaven-property-for-third-supercomputer\/article_00becec1-2606-43cd-a487-99636bbfd50a.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13memphis.com\/news\/xai-buys-southaven-property-for-third-supercomputer\/article_00becec1-2606-43cd-a487-99636bbfd50a.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">By the end of 2025<\/a>, xAI had purchased the former GXO warehouse in Southaven.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"xAI Presence Map 3\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69e163f4f3d2b.image.png\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">By the end of the year, the building in Whitehaven had \u201cMACROHARD\u201d written on the roof and the building in Southaven had \u201cMACROHARDRR\u201d written on the roof. It\u2019s a jab at the company\u2019s competitor, Microsoft. A month ago, Elon Musk\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/2031751255060885911\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/2031751255060885911\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">posted on X<\/a>, \u201cMacrohard or Digital Optimus is a joint xAI-Tesla project, coming as part of Tesla\u2019s investment agreement with xAI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Criticism from neighbors<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">In the meantime, neighbors are fed up and frustrated by the hundreds of construction vehicles driving up and down Tulane Road every day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t know why it&#8217;s all the construction like that in in a little short like space,\u201d said Henry Collins, who grew up in the neighborhood down the road from the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Collins, known as R&amp;B singer, \u201cFerrari Baby,\u201d wants xAI to build something positive for the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">xAI has pledged to upgrading the HVAC systems at multiple schools. The company also committed to a wastewater treatment center, but that project was put on hold last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;If y&#8217;all got money and billionaires and y&#8217;all ain&#8217;t trying to do that, then why would you try to build a building? It&#8217;s not going to help the kids. It&#8217;s not going to help the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;Thanks Elon!\u201d said Ira Peters. \u201cThanks for tearing my neighborhood up!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">After almost fifty years in the neighborhood, Peters told FOX13 he wants out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;Buy my house and let me go,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you want this land so bad, buy my house, let me move to Germantown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Download the FOX13 Memphis app to receive alerts from<br \/>\nbreaking news in your neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13memphis.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE<br \/>\nTO DOWNLOAD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trending stories:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEMPHIS, Tenn. &#8211; xAI has plans to build a 312,000-square-foot building west of the company\u2019s Whitehaven supercomputer, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8056,140,7579,8060,8057,829,8053,6462,8059,3748,8058,8054,8061,8055,2899],"class_list":["post-9353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-xai","tag-cement-mixers","tag-elon-musk","tag-germantown","tag-heavy-machinery","tag-henry-collins","tag-inc","tag-ira-peters","tag-memphis","tag-mississippi","tag-tennessee","tag-tulane","tag-twitter","tag-us-federal-reserve","tag-whitehaven","tag-xai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}