Super Micro CEO Charles Leann said he worked with Elon Musk’s Xai to build the Colossus data center in just 122 days
- Super MicrocomputerFortune 500 Silicon Valley Tech Giant The production of highly efficient servers and data centers is aiming for expansion in the Midwest and East Coast regions, and hopes that President Trump’s tariffs will snatch a hit from higher prices, CEO Charles Lean said Thursday. The company recently partnered with Xai and its Grok team to build a data center in Tennessee.
Super Microcomputers aim to turn the page after a painstaking throw Hosting Accounting and Financial Issues. The data center manufacturer is working towards a $40 billion revenue target, with CEO Charles Liang announced plans to expand from the San Jose campus to new locations on the Midwest and East Coast. Super Micro is in discussion with potential Middle Eastern partners, he added. Liang spoke this week at the Humanx AI Conference in Las Vegas.
He promoted Memphis Data Centerand said the company would assemble the San Jose rack and then ship the components to customers who can “plug and play.” The company is an important part of the AI ecosystem and its assets are nvidiaOpenai, and humanity are experiencing a rapid increase in demand for data center servers needed to operate and train AI models. Liang, who founded the company before growing into a $23 billion Fortune 500 player with five people in 1993, counts Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang as a friend, and Super Micro’s servers are packed with Nvidia’s highly coveted GPUs.
In fact, the new 750,000 square feet Xai Colossus cluster Built for Elon Musk’s Xai Grok team, Super Micro counts 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, the company said recently Case studies.
“It took only 122 days to finish Elon and Super Micro,” Liang said, adding that it usually takes more than a year to build such a data center. “He pushes me a lot and he has high standards.”
And despite the aftermath of Deepseek and China’s Manus AI, Liang said that despite companies getting caught up in a talk about cutting spending, the dynamic environment of technology is being brought back to “balance.”
But ultimately, he predicted that demand would skyrocket over the next five to ten years as companies are looking for the best and most efficient products.
“This AI boom is very big and AI is very powerful,” says Liang. “But AI will be much stronger, much faster, smarter, and more user-friendly… There’s more room for AI to grow.”
He also said that the 25% tariff on President Trump’s steel and aluminum imports would likely not be a meaningful hit for the company as it maintains its US business. Liang said the company plans to leverage Taiwan’s footprint. Ablecom, one of the leading contract manufacturers, is based in Taiwan along with its distributor Compuware. The CEOs of both companies, Steve and Bill Lean, are brothers of Charle’s Lean.
Those and other related party transactions led to short sellers Report Last year, among other accounting lescu flags, it raided Super Micro into the Gridlock of Financial Reporting, where it delayed annual 10-K and quarterly financial applications. That auditor ey Stopped in the middle of engagement and Super Micro was at risk of being present Delisting from NasdaqThis was probably the second time something like this happened.
Last month, Super Micro issued a delayed annual financial report, saying that it was to blame for the delays by previous accounting firms. The company has since been struck by at least five lawsuits and faces investigations from the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Super Micro works with regulators.
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