would be a mistake to think of this and the other Memphis-related news item as completely separate stories
Tim Murphy
"Musk pledged two years ago to build a state-of-the-art water recycling plant in Memphis to guarantee that his xAI servers wouldn’t deplete the city’s groundwater"
"Now that Musk’s first data center is up and running, construction on the recycling facility has come to an abrupt halt"
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company abruptly stopped work on a water reuse facility meant to alleviate strain on the Memphis-area water supply. Nobody’s saying why.
