This is a source-attributed discovery row. It can help you find a place and its citations; it is not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is distinct or currently operating.
Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- xAI
- Address and locality
- 5400 Tulane Road · Memphis · Shelby County · Tennessee
- Lifecycle status
- reported operational
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 9 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001584
What the source record says
Second, physically separate xAI Memphis site, distinct from the Colossus campus at 3231 Paul R Lowry Road in Boxtown. DCD (2025-03-10) reports xAI affiliate CTC Properties bought three parcels at 5400 Tulane Road in Whitehaven for $80m: an existing 1 million sq ft warehouse plus two adjacent sites totalling 100 acres. The $80m figure is the land purchase price recorded in property records, not total project investment. ADDRESS DISCREPANCY: DCD gives 5400 Tulane Road; Wikipedia gives 5420 Tulane Road. 5400 is recorded because it is the figure in the earlier, better-attributed source, and the coordinates are a geocode of that address, not a confirmed parcel boundary. Status moved to operational on Wikipedia's account that the first major cluster came online around January 2026; Wikipedia is a weak source and this is the reason confidence stays at 'confirmed' only for the site's existence, not for its capacity. No capacityMw is recorded: Memphis Light Gas and Water was asked for a system-impact study for up to 260MW and xAI's Brent Mayo said the site could host up to 350,000 GPUs, but both are stated intentions, and the widely quoted 1 GW / 2 GW figures were not confirmed in any source fetched for this record. POWER IS LARGELY OUT OF STATE: the behind-the-meter gas-turbine plant reported to serve this site sits at Stanton Road in Southaven, MISSISSIPPI, so it is not a Tennessee facility and is deliberately not recorded here. PIN CORRECTED 2026-09-13: the previous coordinate (34.999654,-90.04295) was a bare OSM address POINT for 5400 Tulane Road (place=house, ~11m x 9m, no building geometry), sitting 759 m from the warehouse it was meant to mark. The pin is now the centroid of OSM building way 1386926534, explicitly tagged name="xAI Macrohard Colossus 2", operator=xAI, telecom=data_center, addr:housenumber=5420 (way version 3, last edited 2025-12-31). Its footprint measures 511 m x 176 m = 969,472 sq ft, matching the 1 million sq ft warehouse this record describes to within 3%, and Nominatim resolves "5420 Tulane Road" directly to it. This also RESOLVES the address discrepancy above rather than choosing a side: 5400 is the property-record address for the three-parcel, 100-acre assemblage (kept in location.street, per the cited DCD source), while 5420 is the warehouse building itself. precision remains "approximate": the pin is a crowd-sourced OSM footprint corroborated by Wikipedia, NOT a parcel-confirmed point -- Shelby County assessor records returned 403 and could not be checked. Upgrading to "exact" needs that parcel record.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2025-02 · reported proposed
xAI affiliate CTC Properties buys three parcels on Tulane Road in Whitehaven for about $80m.
- 2026-01 · reported operational
First major GPU cluster, about 110,000 Nvidia GB200-class processors and roughly 210 MW, came online after a build of about 91 days.
Sources and attribution
- Elon Musk's xAI buys 1 million sq ft site for second Memphis data center · DataCenterDynamics (archived)
- Colossus (data center) · Wikipedia
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID xai-colossus-2-memphis-tn. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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