SOUTHAVEN, Miss.—Over the last three years, Devan Jenkins has watched the trees around her family home give way to industrial development.
Directly in front of her property along the Mississippi-Tennessee border sits a tangle of massive power lines, an extension of the electrical grid operated by Memphis Light, Gas and Water.
At the end of her street, a few hundred yards away from her bedroom, sprawls Colossus 2, the second data center built by Elon Musk’s company xAI to power his controversial AI chatbot, Grok. And less than two miles across the state line in Southaven, Mississippi, is an xAI-owned energy plant with over two-dozen towering gas turbines…