Jurisdiction: US — Rest of US (composite)
Whitehaven district, Memphis, Tennessee (Tulane Road site, coordinates approximate); supplemental gas-turbine generation across the state line in Southaven, Mississippi
Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: manual
Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.
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Factor
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Contribution
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Cites
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Narrative
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| Capital | baseline | 40 | xAI Colossus 2 (Memphis) | Capital base before committed-capital evidence (announcement-only anchor region, §B.2.4). |
| Capital | capital commitment | +30 | Nvidia (investor) | investor role committed $2,000,000,000 (capex undisclosed — coverage unverifiable). |
| Infrastructure | baseline | 70 | xAI Colossus 2 (Memphis) | No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Infrastructure | interconnection progress | +15 | Energization | Power/interconnection milestone "Energization" achieved on 2026-01-01 — largest single health event (§B.2.3). |
| Regulatory | baseline | 70 | xAI Colossus 2 (Memphis) | No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | baseline | 80 | xAI Colossus 2 (Memphis) | No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines). |
| Schedule | milestone achieved | +5 | Energization | Milestone "Energization" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2026-01-01). |
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No active constraint observations recorded against this project.
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Ownership
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| xAI | — | — | |
| xAI | — | — | |
| Solaris Energy Infrastructure | — | — | |
| Solaris Energy Infrastructure | — | — | |
| MGX | — | — | |
| Valor Equity Partners | — | — | |
| Nvidia | — | $2.0B | |
| Qatar Investment Authority | — | — |
Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.
Introl · Jan 1, 2026 · backs: actual date, capacity mw, expected date, status
https://introl.com/blog/xai-colossus-2-gigawatt-expansion-555k-gpus-january-2026
SemiAnalysis · backs: expected date
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/xais-colossus-2-first-gigawatt-datacenter
Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.
· Introl · relevance 0.95
· Roic News (via The Information) · relevance 0.70
· Tom's Hardware · relevance 0.90
SemiAnalysis · relevance 0.90
Global Energy Monitor · relevance 0.00