xAI faces calls to deny permits to power gas turbines at supercomputer facility. Thermal imaging of xAI's Memphis facility prompted allegations that more than 30 of xAI’s methane gas turbines are operating without environmental permitting. Credit: ©Steve Jones, Flight by Southwings for SELC Elon Musk raced to build Colossus, the world's largest supercomputer, in Memphis, Tennessee. He bragged that construction only took 122 days and expected that his biggest AI rivals would struggle to catch up....