AI megaprojects come with hidden costs

Get the Full StoryFrom Atlanta to Memphis, new supercomputing centers are being built with little public input consuming massive resources while offering unclear benefits.

While Tesla s stock has seen a sharp decline in recent weeks, Elon Musk has quietly been working to expand his influence in a different area of tech: AI supercomputing. Recent reports have revealed that Musk s AI startup, xAI, has been quietly building a new data center in Atlanta. The facility will house around 12,000 Nvidia graphics processing units GPUs , crucial chips that power AI computation.

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