Musk Says Two More Colossus 2 Data Centers, Gun Range and Spam, Will Be Running by December

Elon Musk says his AI buildout along the Tennessee-Mississippi line is about to get bigger.

In posts on X on Saturday, Oct. 31, Musk said Colossus 2 is adding two sites he calls Gun Range and Spam. "Gun Range is tracking to be operational by end of November and Spam in December," he wrote.

Both dates are Musk's projections. Neither site is operating today, Nov. 1.

What Musk says is being built

Musk said the Spam site previously housed Hormel-brand products. He said the Gun Range site sits on land once owned by the local police department. He did not give street addresses for either.

He also said he walked the entire Colossus 2 site around midnight and again that morning, and praised "the SpaceX team and contractors." xAI, which built the original Colossus supercomputer in Memphis in 2024, is now part of SpaceX. Construction on Colossus 2 began last year.

According to Musk's posts, Gun Range will hold about 220,000 Nvidia GB300 chips configured for AI training. Spam will hold roughly 200,000 configured for inference, the work of running trained models. He said Spam needs simpler networking and less than half the fiber of the training buildings.

Musk said the campus should reach about 1.2 million Blackwell-generation chips by year end. Those figures have not been independently verified.

Converge Digest, working from Musk's building-level numbers, calculates that roughly 770,000 chips are in place now. It puts the total near 990,000 after Gun Range and about 1.19 million after Spam.

The footprint on the ground

The company's Southaven operations include a power plant on Stanton Road. Gas turbines there supply electricity to the data centers across the state line in Memphis, according to DeSoto County News.

Through its subsidiary, MZX Tech LLC, the company has recently bought homes near the plant, leased a warehouse on Highway 51 and kept acquiring property, DeSoto County News reports. Contractors have also filed liens worth more than $220 million in DeSoto County over work on the project, the paper reports.

Southaven city leaders and other supporters point to the investment and tax base the project brings to DeSoto County, according to DeSoto County News.

The lawsuit

The NAACP sued xAI and its subsidiary MZX Tech in April. The complaint alleges they operated methane gas turbines without permits in Southaven, Mississippi, to power Colossus 2. Those are allegations. No court has ruled on whether they are true.

Last week a U.S. District Judge denied the companies' motion to dismiss. That keeps the case alive. It is not a finding on the merits.

The companies' filing asked the court to throw the case out. The sources include no further public statement from them defending the turbine operation.

Critics of the project hold a different view of the pace. Residents near Memphis have packed public hearings, staged protests and circulated petitions against the campuses. They say growth has outrun oversight and left neighbors dealing with noise, traffic and air quality concerns, DeSoto County News reports.

What is still open

Private money building private infrastructure is how most American industry gets built, and a project this size does bring construction work and tax revenue. It also has to follow the permit rules every other power-generating operation follows. The court case will test whether it did.

The NAACP case moves forward after the denied dismissal motion. No ruling on the permit allegations has been issued.

On the build side, Gun Range's end-of-November date is about four weeks out. Whether any new permits or city approvals accompany the two sites, or whether the chip counts hold up, will show over the coming weeks.