Elon Musk once again proves that he is willing to sacrifice any comfort for technological progress. This time, the head of xAI has set up in a modest Airstream trailer right in Memphis in order to personally oversee the most ambitious expansion of the Colossus supercomputer.
Highlights from the All-In podcast featuring Musk and Gwynne Shotwell (COO of SpaceX):
Full immersion: Gwynn Shotwell praised Musk’s approach, noting that when he’s working on a critically important project, he fully throws himself into it and lives right on the site.
Fuel for Grok: The Colossus supercomputer cluster, launched in 2024, is being expanded at record speed. Its main task is to provide uncompromising computing power for the development of the Grok model.
Infrastructure scale: To keep up with the pace, xAI simultaneously brings in massive external cloud resources (primarily from Oracle) and builds its own gigantic data center.
(By the way, a small nuance regarding the technical background: Anthropic definitely doesn’t rent computing power from Musk — they are the developers of the Claude neural network themselves and purchase resources from AWS and Google. So xAI is building its own independent computing empire).
⚡ Why is this important for the market?
A frantic pace of building AI infrastructure is squeezing the entire tech sector. These scales directly boost interest in DePIN, AI tokens, and computing ecosystems. When Musk switches to the mode of “sleeping on the construction site,” the industry typically receives a powerful acceleration boost.