The Great AI Power Clash in Tennessee
Silicon Valley has a power problem. It's massive, hungry, and getting worse by the second. But how tech giants choose to solve it reveals everything about who they are.
Just forty miles north of Memphis, Tennessee, Google is quietly building its largest clean energy project to date. It is a sprawling monument to corporate patience, packed with solar panels and massive battery storage. Meanwhile, down the road in Memphis proper, Elon Musk's xAI is running a massive data center on unpermitted gas turbines