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xAI Colossus 2 Data Center

xAI Colossus 2 Data Center is an AI data center campus developed by xAI in Mississippi, Southaven. 1.20 GW of capacity has been announced; none is energized yet. The gap is what this page tracks: what is claimed versus what is actually built, each figure dated and sourced.

Partially energized · xAI · Southaven, Mississippi, United States

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Capacity: announced vs energized

Contracted
not recorded
Under construction
not recorded
Energized
not recorded

Announced-to-energized gap: 1.20 GW. Every figure below is a single dated, sourced claim. Current best per series resolves by evidence tier, then date. See the methodology.

30th-largest announced of 87 tracked campuses70th percentile announced-to-energized gap≈ 972,000 homes of power at full announced capacity (basis)

Promised online: 2026. 4 months away. Claimed by xAI (reported) (source).

xAI Colossus 2 Data Center capacity claims
Source
Announced1.20 GW2026-06-01reportedjournalist report

Key facts

partially energized

Lifecycle

1.20 GW

Announced

0 GW

Energized

xAI

Developer

United States

Location

1.20 GW

Announced-to-energized gap

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The deal

developer
xAI · Owner and operator of Colossus supercomputer campuses
operator
xAI

Power

Power source
behind the meter gas
Interconnection

Colossus 2 on-site gas turbine fleet, 0.49 GW gas, Partially energized. ~46 turbines (~495 MW) reported operating; 41 additional turbines permitted March 2026

County water status: No drought in DeSoto County, week of 2026-08-11 (US Drought Monitor). Data centers are large water users for cooling; this is the neutral local water picture.

Why here

xAI Colossus 2 Data Center is in Mississippi, Southaven. It draws on behind the meter gas power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Financial structure

Reported multi-billion investment (largest private-sector in state history)
Aggregate figures vary across reports journalist report

Regulatory paper trail

The filings and rules on record for this site and its jurisdiction, most recent first. Each is a sourced, dated artifact you can follow to the primary document.

NHTSA Recall: Zoox Robotaxi Software Update for Heavy Smoke Visibility (26E044)operational restriction · 2026-07-15 · United States
FCC Proposed Fines Against Drone Companies (July 2026)other · 2026-07-10 · United States
FAA Proposed Rule: Enabling Supersonic Overland Flight (July 2026)operational restriction · 2026-07-02 · United States

Investment, workforce and specs

GPUs
Targeting on the order of 1 million Nvidia Blackwell GPUs; several hundred thousand deployed by mid-2026 source

Timeline

  2. Aug 2026
    party added
    operator: d7bc30aa-e892-42f7-a58a-e172534fec48
  3. Aug 2026
    Current: Partially energized

Sources

1135eddf-79b2-4cde-aa07-753c2624341f · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Head-to-head

xAI Colossus 2 Data Center vs xAI Colossus →xAI Colossus 2 Data Center vs AWS Madison County Data Center Campuses →

Common questions

What is xAI Colossus 2 Data Center?
xAI Colossus 2 Data Center is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Southaven. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
How much power will xAI Colossus 2 Data Center use?
xAI Colossus 2 Data Center has 1.20 GW of announced capacity on the DEPLOY registry; no energized capacity is yet recorded. Each figure is individually dated and sourced.
Who is building xAI Colossus 2 Data Center?
xAI is recorded as a party to xAI Colossus 2 Data Center on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is xAI Colossus 2 Data Center operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, xAI Colossus 2 Data Center is partially energized. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on xAI Colossus 2 Data Center?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

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Cite this page

DEPLOY. (2026). xAI Colossus 2 Data Center: AI data center campus record. Retrieved August 20, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/xai-colossus-2-southaven-mississippi

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