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Colossus, Parts 1 & 2
Search Engine · reported by Sruthi Pinnamaneni
A two-part investigation follows AI's enormous infrastructure bet from Data Center Alley to xAI's conflict with people living beside Colossus.
Part one follows the technology industry’s vast AI wager and the physical construction it has set in motion. Part two moves to Memphis, where people living beside xAI’s Colossus confront the costs directly.
Together they connect infrastructure and finance: what the money builds, what the building does to a place, and which untested assumptions are keeping the money in motion.