They built a supercomputer in 122 days—while skirting the rules everyone else follows
- Jun 12
- 1 min read
INC. — Memphis, Tennessee, resident Sarah Gladney woke up one Friday morning, opened the windows, and smelled something awful.
It wasn’t the rotten-cabbage stink that she and her neighbors knew from the local waste plant. This was heavier, sulfuric, more like a gas leak than sewage. Sarah wondered if the stench was coming from the supercomputer a mile down the road. That’s where 35 methane gas turbines had begun to roar.
There was no town hall before its construction. There weren’t any decade-long environmental impact studies delaying the pour of concrete either. The supercomputer is called Colossus. Elon Musk needed it to train xAI’s artificial intelligence model.
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