Elon Musk said his company and contractors are making "good progress" at the Colossus 2 site. Finn Gomez/Getty Images

Elon Musk isn't wasting any time building out his massive AI-computing facilities in Tennessee.

Musk said on X that he's expanding Colossus 2 with two additional sites, dubbed Spam and Gun Range. He said the Spam location used to house Hormel-brand products, Spam perhaps among them , and that the Gun Range location was once owned by the local police department.

"I walked the whole Colossus 2 site around midnight and again this morning. Good progress by the SpaceX team and contractors," Musk said on X. "Gun Range is tracking to be operational by end of November and Spam in December."

Developing and running AI systems requires enormous amounts of compute power, which led Musk to build a supercomputer called Colossus in Memphis in 2024. xAI, acquired by SpaceX, later expanded the project with Colossus 2 to generate more power for its AI chatbot, Grok.…