The city in Mississippi, across the state line from Memphis, where the mobile turbines that power Colossus 2 run on the grounds of a retired Duke Energy plant, and where a permanent plant of forty-one turbines is permitted. Chapter 9.
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Defined in Chapter 9 — The Price of Permission.
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 9 — The Price of Permission
Who gets to say yes or no to a campus: counties, air regulators, courts and legislatures, and what their permits, abatements and refusals cost in time and money.
Where the record uses it
- Dated test Chapter 12, Southaven’s calendar, due 27 August 2026
- Dated test Chapter 12, Southaven’s calendar, due 28 September 2026
- Dated test Chapter 12, Southaven’s calendar, due 31 December 2026
- Dated test Chapter 12, Southaven’s calendar, due 31 December 2026
- Dated test Chapter 12, Southaven’s calendar, due 14 July 2027
- Person Pearson, Justin J
- Person Samsa, Shannon
- Person Tipton, Robert, Jr
Sources that use it
- SpaceXAI, job posting on Greenhouse, accessed 4 September 2026: “Electrical Commissioning Technician,” Southaven, Mississippi / Memphis, Tennessee. In the Sources
- xAI (SpaceXAI), job posting on Greenhouse, accessed 4 September 2026: “Electrician, Construction (Colossus),” Memphis, Tennessee (“Install, terminate, and land new substation and campus electrical equipment, including breakers, transformers, switches, relays, buswork, control systems, and batteries” — as held in the capture of 29 August 2026, the posting being rewritten afterwards, so that by 19 September 2026 it described 480 V work based in Southaven and named no substation, relays or 161 kV; “medium-voltage switching and operations up to 161 kV in support of construction and first energization”; “frequent overtime and weekend support is required”). In the Sources
- City of Southaven, April 2026 business-starts report, MZX Tech entry dated 21 April 2026 (2400 Stateline Road West; 30 full-time employees). In the Sources
- City of Southaven, DeSoto County and taxing authorities, MZX Tech LLC ad valorem (fee-in-lieu) tax agreement, published 9 January 2026 (more than $10 billion; at least 20 jobs; one-third of ordinary tax on eligible property for up to ten years per item). In the Sources
- City of Southaven, Mississippi, Minutes of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, regular meeting of 18 August 2026, Part 1 (the mayor’s report on the land swap, page 15 of the minutes; Mayor Darren Musselwhite “stated that the City of Southaven has entered a contract with MZX Tech, LLC, an affiliate of SpacexAI, to relocate our former Police/Fire training center on Tulane Road to property on Swinnea Road just south of Stateline Road”; “This land swap deal will transfer ownership of the City’s 51-acre site in exchange for 69 acres of new land surrounding an existing 20-acre parcel of City property and $40 million to construct new facilities.”; the contract itself is not published; the minutes are a scan with no text layer, read from the page image) In the Sources
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Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Southaven.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/southaven (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-southaven-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Southaven}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/southaven},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}