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title: "Tennessee, US: campuses in the ledger — The AI Compute Race — DRYBURGH · The Compute Economy"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/places/tennessee-us
description: "The 2 campuses of the ledger in Tennessee, US, with their announced and evidenced capacity, their verdicts and the dated tests that name them."
---

# Tennessee, US

2 of the forty campuses in the ledger

Two of the forty campuses in the ledger are in Tennessee. Two of them carry an announced or estimated capacity, 1,871 MW in all. The record evidences 1,286 MW across the two, at the end-of-August 2026 reading.

1 slipped · 1 kept

From *The AI Compute Race*. [Read the book](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#buy)

## The campuses

| Campus | Where | Announced or estimated capacity (IT load) | Evidenced power (IT load) | The book’s verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Colossus 2](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/colossus-2) | Memphis, Tennessee, and Southaven, Mississippi, US | 1,531 MW | 946 MW | Slipped |
| [Colossus 1](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger/colossus-1) | Memphis, Tennessee, US | 340 MW | 340 MW | Kept |

## Who is involved

- [xAI (SpaceXAI)](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/xai-spacexai) 2 of 2
- [Anthropic](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/anthropic) 1 of 2

Every figure is the campus page’s own, read at the end of August 2026; each campus page carries its sources. [Places](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/places) · [All 40 campuses](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger).

- [Tests](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests)
- [Scorecard](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/scorecard)
- [Data](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/data/releases)
- [Chapter by chapter](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/companion)
- [The record at a glance](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/observatory)
- [The machine](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/machine)
- [One campus, four futures](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/hyperion)
- [Glossary](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary)
- [People](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/people)
- [Sources](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources)
- [Notes](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes)
- [Where the book was wrong](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/corrections)
- [Where its sources were wrong](https://dryburgh.com/corrections?book=vol1)
- [The Paper](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/paper)
- [Consent](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/consent)
- [Who builds and pays](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties)

*The AI Compute Race: Five Races, One Machine* is a book by Lee S. Dryburgh, the first volume of THE COMPUTE ECONOMY, published by Dryburgh, an imprint of Contestra OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia; its record closes on 8 November 2026.

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