The Hidden Colossus Elon Musk is Constructing to Revolutionize the Globe (and Conquer the Days Ahead)
The future of artificial intelligence already has coordinates: . There, is building something colossal, literally. It’s called and could be the most powerful AI training system ever created. But this is not just a technological feat: What is at stake is more than a technological race: it is the control of the future.
### What is Colossus and why is it generating so much impact?
. Designed to train advanced language models like Grok, Colossus already operates with 200,000 units of Nvidia H100 GPUs, and aims to reach a million before the end of 2025. The project started in 2024 with 100,000 GPUs and doubled in just three months. Everything has been built at a dizzying speed: the first phase took 122 days, and the expansion, another 92. If it continues like this,
### Colossal investment, brutal consumption
Creating an artificial brain of this scale is not cheap. And the energy consumption is at the same scale: To ensure the supply, has installed 168 Tesla Megapacks with a capacity of 650 MWh, an unprecedented backup system. This gigantic consumption has already raised environmental alarms, but for , the goal justifies the magnitude.
### Why is Elon Musk building this now?
. wants Grok, his own language model, to surpass ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Meta’s LLaMA. With planned for the end of 2025, , the key to achieving AGI lies not only in the quality of the models, but in the volume and speed of training. Colossus is his bet to accelerate that evolution faster than anyone else.
A new era in the AI race. And while rival companies are still expanding cautiously, xAI has revved up the engines to full power. Big tech companies are readjusting their roadmaps, and analysts warn of the ethical, energy, and social risks of an uncontrolled race for an omnipotent AI. Who will govern that AI? Who will regulate it? And what if no one does? Colossus: the first step towards a new humanity?
Beyond the data and figures, . is not waiting for the future to arrive. He is building it. He is convinced that artificial intelligence will not just be a tool, but the next step in the evolution of civilization. Now, everyone —from Silicon Valley to Brussels and Beijing— is closely watching this silicon and code monster. Because when it wakes up, it could change everything. The question is no longer if Colossus will transform the world. It’s when.
