Dell Technologies has deployed tens of thousands of GPUs to support artificial intelligence efforts at Musk's supercomputer project in Memphis. "We started from scratch and deployed tens of thousands of GPUs at scale in just a few months," Chief Operating Officer Jeff Clarke said in an interview Thursday. "The cluster continues to be built and we are coming out on top."

Musk's startup xAI is developing a large-scale facility to increase its computing power in building artificial intelligence tools.xAI plans to expand its Memphis-based supercomputer to at least 1 million graphics processing units, a tenfold increase from the current 100,000.

Tech giant Dell's business has been booming this year, thanks to demand for high-performance servers powered by Nvidia GPUs, the chips needed to run artificial intelligence workloads. Dell's AI server shipments reached $2.9 billion in the quarter ended November 1.


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The Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce said Nvidia, which provides the GPUs for xAI, and Dell and Supermicro, which assembles server racks for the computer, will also establish operations in Memphis as part of the expansion plan.