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Does Elon Musk have a data center?

Dgtl Infra explores the data centers and computing infrastructure behind Elon Musk’s major companies: Tesla, X Corp (Twitter), and xAI. We cover Tesla’s high-performance computing systems, including its Dojo supercomputer and D1 chip, X Corp’s data center strategy, and xAI’s emerging infrastructure to support its AI chatbot, Grok.

Did Elon Musk send Nvidia GPUs to Tesla?

Source: Tesla. In 2024, Elon Musk reportedly directed NVIDIA to send GPUs reserved for Tesla (totaling over $500 million in reservations) to X Corp (Twitter) and xAI instead. Musk claimed that Tesla lacked the infrastructure to use the GPUs at that time, so they would have sat unused in storage.

Will Elon Musk integrate Grok into Tesla's software?

Additionally, Elon Musk has mentioned potential opportunities to integrate Grok into Tesla’s software. xAI has released Grok-1.5 and is currently training Grok-2 using 20,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs. Elon Musk estimates that Grok-3 will require 100,000 GPUs. To this end, xAI’s near-term plans for data centers include:

How has Elon Musk streamlined its IT infrastructure?

Since Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in October 2022, the company has been streamlining its IT infrastructure by: Despite these reductions, X Corp has increased its high-performance computing accelerator capacity.

Where does Tesla store data?

Tesla operates a data center in Shanghai, China, to comply with Chinese regulations requiring local data storage. The company stores all data generated from vehicle sales in mainland China locally, addressing concerns from Chinese authorities about potential security risks.

Does Tesla have a data center?

Tesla operates and is developing several strategic data center locations across the United States and internationally to support its advanced computing needs. Tesla is building a new Dojo supercomputer at its headquarters in Austin, Texas, to house its largest AI training cluster to date.