They are spending a lot of money.
From Reuters, January 8:
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is investing more than $20 billion to build a data center in Southaven, Mississippi, state Governor Tate Reeves said in a statement on Thursday, as a boom in generative AI fuels demand for increased computing power.Interest in data centers swelled last year as tech giants and AI hyperscalers planned and invested billions of dollars in spending to scale up infrastructure. xAI's latest expansion underscores its ambitious push to compete more effectively with industry leaders OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude by training increasingly advanced models.xAI expects to begin data center operations in Southaven in February 2026, the statement added.Musk had announced the purchase of the data center, called "MACROHARDRR", on December 30. The billionaire had said that it would take xAI's compute power to 2GW, but did not provide investment details or its location at the time....
....MUCH MORE
Macrohard>Microsoft, get it?
(I think Elon is still unhappy that Bill Gates shorted TSLA)
It's a good thing Mr. Musk is an ulti-multi-billionaire, otherwise he'd just be weird.
