Scrutica
Compute
GPUs
Supply Chain
Facility-level telemetry including power capacity, hardware deployments, supplier relationships, and downstream dependencies. Linked to xAI with cross-referenced BIS Entity List matches.
Detailed intelligence on xAI Colossus 2. Tracks operational capacity, ownership structure, and the facility's strategic position within the global AI supply chain, including relevant export control restrictions.
As of 2026-04-27
Direct operator or owner of this facility per the Scrutica facility record.
Description
xAI Colossus 2 is the follow-up to Colossus 1. Like its predecessor, it is located in Memphis and was converted from an existing building. To start powering the data center, xAI made the unusual choice to install natural gas turbines across the border in Mississippi, possibly to get faster approval for their operation. We use a combination of satellite/aerial images and announcements to estimate the timeline and compute capacity of the data center.
Notes
Nearby Facilities (within 100 km)
Energy Profile
Grid Carbon
407.36 gCO2/kWhCarbon Intensity
407.36 kg CO2/MWhBalancing Authority
TVANERC Region
SERCeGRID Subregion
SRTVParent / controlling entity, documented through PitchBook's affiliate graph (private-database source; not in public filings).
Source: PitchBook (WRDS) · Confidence HIGH · As of 2026-02-04
Chain reaches PitchBook Entity 46488-07; ownership beyond that point is not documented in Scrutica’s available substrate (as of 2026-04-27). Further hops may exist but are not yet ingested.
United States (US)
Operates the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the BIS Entity List under 15 CFR 730–774; deemed-export rules extend reach to foreign nationals on US soil.
Regimes: Wassenaar Arrangement; US EAR (BIS Entity List authority)
Established via: xAI
No flags found across the chain (BIS Entity List, designation-cascade closures, or compute-threshold reporting obligations) as of 2026-04-27. Cascade closures evaluated: 0.
No ownership-change events documented in Scrutica’s available substrate for any entity in this chain over the last 5 years. Events draw from PitchBook deal records (M&A, buyout, divestiture, asset sale, JV formation); PitchBook coverage is strongest for private US/EU transactions and partial for state-owned-enterprise restructurings or non-Western private deals. Subsequent ingestion runs may add events here.
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund
PIF is associated with Saudi Arabia’s Saudi Arabia: HUMAIN / Project Transcendence. See actor profile →
Touches xAI (chain hop 1) via fund BlackRock Middle East infrastructure Fund. Commitment dollar value not disclosed (2023-05-10).
Mubadala Investment Company
Mubadala is associated with United Arab Emirates’s UAE: Stargate UAE / G42 / Core42 / TII Sovereign AI. See actor profile →
Touches PitchBook Entity 46488-07 (chain hop 2) via fund BOC Ventures II. Commitment dollar value not disclosed (2021-03-26).
Temasek Holdings
Temasek is associated with Singapore’s Singapore: National AI Strategy 2.0 / AISG / NSCC Sovereign Compute. See actor profile →
Touches xAI (chain hop 1) via fund TG Sino-Dragon Fund. Commitment dollar value not disclosed (2020-01-01).
GIC Private
GIC is associated with Singapore’s Singapore: National AI Strategy 2.0 / AISG / NSCC Sovereign Compute. See actor profile →
Touches xAI (chain hop 1) via fund Sequoia Capital India Growth Fund I. Commitment dollar value not disclosed (2006-08-08).
GIC Private
GIC is associated with Singapore’s Singapore: National AI Strategy 2.0 / AISG / NSCC Sovereign Compute. See actor profile →
Touches PitchBook Entity 46488-07 (chain hop 2) via fund Sequoia Capital Growth Fund III. Commitment dollar value not disclosed (2006-05-01).
Kuwait Investment Authority
KIA is a KW-domiciled sovereign vehicle (no Scrutica-tracked sovereign AI program for this country yet). See actor profile →
Touches xAI (chain hop 1) via fund Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Capital Partners IV. Commitment dollar value not disclosed (1999-11-01).
Mubadala Investment Company
Mubadala is associated with United Arab Emirates’s UAE: Stargate UAE / G42 / Core42 / TII Sovereign AI. See actor profile →
Touches xAI (chain hop 1) via fund Lightspeed SPV-AB. Commitment dollar value not disclosed.
The walk for xAI Colossus 2 starts at the operator org id (or owner org id when no operator is recorded) and climbs upward through the unified affiliate graph (ownership_chain_edges), normalized child→parent via the ownership_upward_edgesview. At each hop, the highest-authority parent edge wins (priority ordering: SEC EDGAR / 10-K / LEI registry > FactSet Workstation / Revere > Compustat > BIS / Federal Register > PitchBook). Confidence and recency break ties.
The walk terminates on (a) a node with a public-filing-grade ancestor edge — a SEC filer, an LEI-registered listed entity, or a 10-K-disclosed parent — (b) a government entity, (c) a 10-hop limit, or (d) a detected cycle. When termination is not at a public filer or government, the panel labels the chain's end-state as opaque beyond that point. Opacity is reported, never implied.
Per-source confidence (PitchBook): HIGH for Parent / Subsidiary edges; MEDIUM for JV and AFFILIATE edges. Known limitations: (1) shell companies with undisclosed principals terminate the public-record walk; (2) recent transactions reach the panel after PitchBook's weekly refresh; (3) cross-jurisdiction private holding structures may carry intermediate hops that are not in any ingested source. Each row carries an edge-level as of date so freshness is auditable per hop.
Two further caveats are inherent to how the walker and substrate compose. The walker selects a single highest-authority parent per hop, so JV or multi-parent ownership structures collapse to one displayed path; alternate parents exist in the substrate but are not surfaced on this card. And some PitchBook edges encode parent-of relations against entity-resolved stub IDs whose display name reflects a sub-entity (a business unit, an acquired-then-renamed line) rather than the canonical parent — when a chain reads structurally surprising, the per-row source citation is the authoritative reference, not the chain's narrative shape.
Computed at: 2026-04-27. Walk depth observed: 2 hops. Sources combined: Scrutica facility record + PitchBook affiliate graph + SEC CIK cross-reference + LEI registry + (where applicable) FactSet Revere supply-chain graph + Federal Register designation closures.