{"id":190812,"date":"2024-06-08T06:23:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T11:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/elon-musk-plans-worlds-most-powerful-supercomputer-in-memphis"},"modified":"2024-06-08T06:23:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T11:23:45","slug":"elon-musk-plans-worlds-most-powerful-supercomputer-in-memphis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/elon-musk-plans-worlds-most-powerful-supercomputer-in-memphis","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk plans \u2018world\u2019s most powerful\u2019 supercomputer\u2019 in Memphis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-plans-worlds-most-powerful-supercomputer-in-memphis2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Memphis may get most powerful super computer yet.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis, Tennessee, may host the world\u2019s largest supercomputer, the \u201cGigafactory of Compute.\u201d:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The Memphis Shelby County Economic Development Growth Engine (EDGE), Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), and governing authorities hold the key to finalizing the project. If approved, it would be the largest investment in Memphis history.<\/p>\n<p>According to Memphis Mayor Paul Young, the city boasts \u201can ideal site, ripe for investment,\u201d coupled with a skilled workforce that can \u201ckeep up with the pace required to land this transformational project, the<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.in\/tech\/news\/elon-musk-may-build-a-multibillion-dollar-supercomputer-in-memphis-tennessee\/articleshow\/110751507.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Business Insider<\/a> <\/em>reported.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/top-supercomputer-frontier-aurora\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"dofollow\">supercomputer<\/a> itself is expected to be a technological marvel. It will be powered by 100,000 Nvidia\u2019s H100 GPUs, currently some of the most sought-after chips in the AI industry, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/musk-plans-xai-supercomputer-dubbed-gigafactory-of-compute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> by <em>The Information<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis may get most powerful super computer yet. Memphis, Tennessee, may host the world\u2019s largest supercomputer, the \u201cGigafactory of Compute.\u201d: The Memphis Shelby County Economic Development Growth Engine (EDGE), Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), and governing authorities hold the key to finalizing the project. If approved, it would be the largest investment in Memphis history. According [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,2019,6,44,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}