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Musk and Colossus: Inside the 1.29 Gigawatt Machine in Memphis

Elon Musk is sleeping in an Airstream beside a warehouse in Whitehaven with MACROHARD painted on the roof. The machine next to it is a two-state compute campus carrying about 1.29 gigawatts of IT load, roughly 670,000 accelerators and 48.7 billion dollars of modeled capital, per Epoch AI cards of 16 September 2026. A field brief on the buildings, the silicon, the turbines, the batteries, the tenants who now hold the hours, and what the compute is actually worth.