Southaven
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Nov 3, 2026
Kirk CoburnHOST
Go ahead, Mark, set it up.
Mark MeyerHOST
Yeah, so part of the... build up and build out and an energization of Colossus in the Memphis area has been a relocation of the bridge behind the meter source, all the trailer mounted gas fired turbines that are providing most of the power to Colossus 1 and 2. while they get the permanent combined cycle facility built over across the border in South Haven is they moved a bunch of those temporary turbines down to Mississippi and Right after that or during that process, the EPA closed the loophole that said you've got 360 or 364 days to be exempt from Clean Air Act.
Mark MeyerHOST
Well, the NAACP has been leading a lot of pushback and protest.
Mark MeyerHOST
in Memphis and Shelby County and in the nearby areas and they filed suit against XAI.
Mark MeyerHOST
And so when Colossus I started in August or September of 2024, they were taking full advantage of that federal loophole.
Mark MeyerHOST
And I think similarly in Tennessee and Mississippi, the state level gives you similar 360 or 364-day exemptions.
Mark MeyerHOST
And Mississippi signed off on it when they moved those turbines down there to South Haven and said, yeah, that exemption is still in place.
Mark MeyerHOST
But we talked about it some months ago on another show and another time when this issue was relevant.
Mary CasciolaHOST
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Natalie Van GundyHOST
SpaceX AI is continuing its buying spree in South Haven.
Natalie Van GundyHOST
However, Noah McLean says some residents say the company's offers for their properties are too low.
Noah McLeanCORRESPONDENT
Heather Welch, who lives less than two miles from the SpaceX AI power plant on Stanton Road, said she and her husband were offered $210,000 for the home they bought in 2024, $15,000 less than the most recent appraisal.
Noah McLeanCORRESPONDENT
Another resident, Leo Agawut, said Elon Musk is a trillionaire and that he's, quote, coming pretty awfully cheap, end quote.
Noah McLeanCORRESPONDENT
SpaceX AI subsidiary MZXTech has acquired more than 150 acres in the South Haven area over the past month.
Noah McLeanCORRESPONDENT
For the Daily Memphian, I'm Noah McLean.
Natalie Van GundyHOST
That's the AMDM for this Tuesday, November 3rd.
Booker ScottHOST
And Elon Musk has run into a situation in Mississippi where he is buying homes to get the people to be quiet about the data center that he has in their backyard.
Booker ScottHOST
Well, here his artificial intelligence company is trying to buy 400 homes in one neighborhood in South Haven, Mississippi.
Booker ScottHOST
So far, they have bought 18.
Booker ScottHOST
They're not stealing these homes.
Matt PalumboHOST
As long as they're paying all those costs, I don't think it's that big of a problem.
Matt PalumboHOST
But I know there are cases where they're not.
Booker ScottHOST
While you were talking, I looked up the population of South Haven, Mississippi.
Booker ScottHOST
It's about 57,000 in the census 2020.
John TempletonGUEST
So over the next 24 hours, we just need to make sure that our HBCU students, our fraternities and sororities, even our high school seniors really focus on the fact that their future is on the ballot.
John TempletonGUEST
These people, like Elon Musk, saw the story on your website, where he's trying to buy up all the houses in South Haven, Mississippi, so people can't sue him.
John TempletonGUEST
So we've got Markita Bradshaw, who's running for Senate in Tennessee, and Justin Pearson, who's running for the House, and Chris Jones, who's running for the House, in Little Rock.
John TempletonGUEST
So if we put those people in, they're going to be a check on Elon Musk.
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Matthew KelsoHOST
Well, Elon Musk has announced that two additional SpaceX AI data centers are under construction in the South Haven and Memphis area, with both expected to begin operating before the end of 2026.
Matthew KelsoHOST
Now, Musk revealed the projects on October 31st, giving them the unusual names, quote unquote, gun range and quote unquote, spam.
Matthew KelsoHOST
The gun range facility gets its name from a former police shooting range that Musk says the company purchased.
Matthew KelsoHOST
Spam will focus on something called inference, which is the process of actually running those models when people use them.
Matthew KelsoHOST
For example, training helps create a new version of Grok, while inference allows Grok to answer questions from users.
Matthew KelsoHOST
So SpaceX AI is essentially building its own power plant in South Haven.
Matthew KelsoHOST
In March of 2026, Mississippi regulators approved permits for 41 permanent natural gas turbines capable of generating approximately 1.2 gigawatts of electricity.
Chase ParhamHOST
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Neal McCreadyHOST
is in South Haven, right? Oh, it's
Chase ParhamHOST
South Haven.
Chase ParhamHOST
Sorry, you're right.
Chase ParhamHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Chase ParhamHOST
Sorry.
Chase ParhamHOST
William & Mary, then go to South Haven, then Youngstown State, then go to Jackson and play NC State, go to Biloxi and play Southern Miss.
Neal McCreadyHOST
And this isn't their fault, but the NC State game is the weekend of the first round of the playoffs, correct?
speaker_2NARRATOR
A federal judge in Mississippi, Deborah Brown, has denied a motion by XAI, now owned by SpaceX, to dismiss a case brought by the NAACP under the Clean Air Act.
speaker_2NARRATOR
The suit alleges that XAI and an affiliated company ran dozens of gas turbines without the required air permits at a site in South Haven near Memphis to power its Colossus computing cluster.
speaker_2NARRATOR
The opinion was released late Friday.
speaker_2NARRATOR
The ruling does not decide whether XAI broke the law.
Ken HackmanHOST
We've got two of them here in the state of Mississippi.
Ken HackmanHOST
Those are in both South Haven and in Jackson.
Ken HackmanHOST
Those of you in the Jackson area where I am, we love our Wild Birds Unlimited store.
Ken HackmanHOST
That's the only place that I will get my seed today from.
17 MINS LATER
Ken HackmanHOST
And I'll be just as happy as you can imagine.
Ken HackmanHOST
If I could get some leaves from some of y'all that would, that would really thrill me and make my day.
Ken HackmanHOST
So today we are going to mention some of what's going on at wild birds, unlimited, both the South Haven stores and the boy, I thought I took a picture of this and the Jackson store here in the Metro area.
Ken HackmanHOST
What's going on up in South Haven.
Malcom ReedHOST
that you can definitely get pork fat.
Malcom ReedHOST
And Adobe in South Haven may have some pork fat.
Malcom ReedHOST
But used to, you could go ask the butchers at the grocery stores, and they would either give it to you or sell it to you pretty cheap.
Malcom ReedHOST
They won't do that anymore.
Eric DixonGUEST
Yeah, I did.
Eric DixonGUEST
I did right down there in South Haven.
Jon RoserPANELIST
You and Orlando had a couple games together where it was, you and Orlando Robinson, where it was like, all right, both of us are going off.
Jon RoserPANELIST
Y'all both had a game where you both had 40.
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