Musk Targets 1.1M GPUs in Memphis as AWS Adds 2M Nvidia Chips
Friday, September 25, 2026 · 10 min
Elon Musk says xAI's Colossus 2 cluster in Memphis will more than double its Nvidia chip count, to over 1.1 million H100-equivalents, by year-end. AWS separately commits to 2 million more Nvidia GPUs, while New Jersey fines a data center over unpermitted gas generators.
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Elon Musk says xAI's Colossus 2 cluster in Memphis will more than double its Nvidia chip count, to over 1.1 million H100-equivalents, by year-end. AWS separately commits to 2 million more Nvidia GPUs, while New Jersey fines a data center over unpermitted gas generators.
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- New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators — Ars Technica
This week, New Jersey ordered the operator of one of the East Coast’s largest planned data centers to pay a $1.1 million fine for secretly installing and operating gas generators in violation of the state’s Air Pollution Control Act. DataOne got hit with the fine after an investigation by The Guardian and Floodlight News in August shared thermal drone footage showing that 45 of the 62 gas…
“"Backlash was immediate, however, when Vineland’s mayor and council proposed giving DataOne a $6.2 million loan." These poor data center operators do really need a hand up after all. Incredible. Of all of the things your municipality could use its development funds on, this…” — Hacker News (82 pts thread)
Our take: Fined $1.1 million, then offered a $6.2 million loan by the city. That's a net subsidy of about five million for getting caught. Hard to write better satire than the municipal agenda.
“1.1 million dollars and they are still allowed to run the gas generators? I think this is inaccurately called a fine when it sounds like a retroactively applied permit fee to operate.” — Hacker News (82 pts thread)
Our take: We mostly agree. Against the capex of a facility this size, $1.1 million is a line item, and if the turbines keep spinning it functions more like a late permit fee than a deterrent.
“> transitioning to low emission quiet fuel cells Does this technology even exist? The lies are getting more brazen.” — Hacker News (82 pts thread)
Our take: Gentle pushback on this one: solid-oxide fuel cells are real, quiet, and already running at data centers. The catch is that most still run on natural gas, so 'low emission' is carrying a lot of weight in that sentence.
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