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In this US state, Korean company SK Innovation is co-constructing a huge electric vehicle plant called Blue Oval City. The first public exascale supercomputer, Frontier, is in this (-5[2])state. After (10[1])California and Texas, this will be the third state to which database company Oracle (10[1])moves its HQ. (-5[1])In 2021, (-5[1])Amazon opened a 3.6 million square foot (-5[1])warehouse (-5[1])in this state’s exurb Mount Juliet. The (10[1])gas turbine-powered (10[1])Colossus supercluster, which uses (10[1])over 100,000 GPUs, was built in this state’s southwest by Elon Musk’s xAI (“X-A-I”). A city in this state disbanded its SCORPION unit in 2023 (10[1])after body cameras captured (-5[1])five Black (10[1])police officers (10[1])fatally beating Tyre (10[1])Nichols. (10[1])This state’s Republican governor Bill Lee (-5[1])signed a bill protecting (10[1]-5[1])musicians from AI impersonation, the ELVIS Act. (10[1])For 10 points, name this state with a growing tech sector in Nashville. ■END■ (10[9])

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