Elon Musk may have put the Pentagon at risk of espionage and sabotage by quietly purchasing 2,000 tons of Chinese-made transformers for xAI’s Colossus data center.
xAI’s Colossus, located in Memphis, Tennessee, is the world’s largest AI supercomputer and a prime target for hackers due to its ties to the U.S. government.
The facility was gifted a $200 million contract with the Department of Defense in July to “develop prototype frontier AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges… across warfighting and enterprise domains.” The Department of Homeland Security uses a custom version of Grok, X’s AI chatbot, which Colossus powers.
U.S. Customs Data reveals that Colossus has been importing its transformers from Shanghai for at least a year. OligarchWatch reported on t

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