# We are burning fossil fuels to make AI — xAI Memphis

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-04-11
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** Greg Osuri, CEO of Akash Network, on why compute should be shared with a decentralized marketplace! (LegendsNLeaders)
- **Watch at:** 00:14:52 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMx6G0ZOxeo&t=892s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2025-04-11-we-are-burning-fossil-fuels-to-make-ai-xai-memphis-g55k/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "We are burning fossil fuels to make AI — xAI Memphis," Greg Osuri, CEO of Akash Network, on why compute should be shared with a decentralized marketplace! (LegendsNLeaders), 11 Apr 2025, 00:14:52. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMx6G0ZOxeo&t=892s

## Quote — verbatim

> The xAI data center in Memphis, owned by Elon Musk, is only able to get 7 MW from the grid, but it's 150 MW data center... they're literally burning \[liquefied natural\] gas to power the data centers, and that's causing environmental concerns in South Memphis... we're at a point that we have to burn fossil to make AI. And that's not sustainable... it's doubling every 2 years.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Citing lawsuits and asthma rates around the Memphis site; "doesn't matter what side of the political spectrum you fall, nobody wants dirty air." Quote spans into the [00:15:34] block.