# Memphis Colossus runs on gas, and it's poisoning the city

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-04-02
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** Interview With Greg Osuri, Founder Of Akash Network (Secret Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:10:51 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0HPDluOlsQ&t=651s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2025-04-02-memphis-colossus-runs-on-gas-and-it-s-poisoning-th-qk5v/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Memphis Colossus runs on gas, and it's poisoning the city," Interview With Greg Osuri, Founder Of Akash Network (Secret Network), 2 Apr 2025, 00:10:51. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0HPDluOlsQ&t=651s

## Quote — verbatim

> The Colossus xAI data center in Memphis has about 150 megawatt capacity, has about 200,000 H100 chips... it's drawing about 7 megawatts from the grid... They're burning gas... The problem is so bad in Memphis they have a huge pollution problem — it's causing elevated issues of asthma, respiratory diseases... there's a lawsuit that's looming.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Evidence that concentrated AI training already exceeds grid capacity; he calls this "the current state of AI training."