It appears that xAI has purchased the former natural gas plant in Southaven, Mississippi that the company was eyeing for electricity generation. Samuel Hardiman, for The Daily Memphian:

The land, a former natural gas plant located at 2875 Stanton Road, is just off Tulane Road, which also extends north into Memphis and is the same street that houses the company’s second supercomputer in Whitehaven.

The 114-acre property has been a swirl of activity for months. The Daily Memphian has observed xAI workers and contractors at the site for weeks. On Tuesday, July 15, Brent Mayo, an xAI executive, said “everything is on the table” in regard to the site and acknowledged the company’s work there.

The site also has access to key natural gas infrastructure. According to the National Pipeline Mapping System, the a line comes off an interstate pipeline and into the back of the property. On Wednesday, July 16, The Daily Memphian observed workers near that pipeline head.

Southaven better get ready for a bunch of turbines.

As previously reported, the NAACP and Southern Environmental Law Center have been planning to sue xAI over its use of gas-burning turbines to power its datacenter in Memphis. As Ashley Belanger writes at Ars Technica, the groups are appealing the new government-issued permit by which 15 of the turbines are operating:

In their appeal, the NAACP and other groups argued that the SCHD put xAI profits over Black people’s health, granting unlawful exemptions while turning a blind eye to xAI’s operations, which allegedly started in 2024 but were treated as brand new in 2025.

Significantly, the groups claimed that the health department “improperly ignored” the prior turbine activity and the additional turbines still believed to be on site, unlawfully deeming some of the turbines as “temporary” and designating xAI’s facility a new project with no prior emissions sources. Had xAI’s data center been categorized as a modification to an existing major source of pollutants, the appeal said, xAI would’ve faced stricter emissions controls and “robust ambient air quality impacts assessments.”

And perhaps more concerningly, the exemptions granted could allow xAI—or any other emerging major sources of pollutants in the area—to “install and operate any number of new polluting turbines at any time without any written approval from the Health Department, without any public notice or public participation, and without pollution controls,” the appeal said.