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# The AI Buildout Gets Physical, Markets, Oil, and Other Things Holding Things Up, Wartime Tech and Weak Spots
- URL: https://adjacent.media/scan/2026-10-13-am/
- Published: 2026-10-13T10:21:46.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-13T10:21:46.000Z
- Description: Tuesday’s stories: AI buildout money is reaching small towns and old crypto-mining halls, and the labs building the models are fielding questions about why those models go off-script.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #scan-am, #scan

Tuesday's stories: AI buildout money is reaching small towns and old crypto-mining halls, and the labs building the models are fielding questions about why those models go off-script. Markets are waiting on earnings to back their optimism, and a decade-old bug in the XRP Ledger could have minted 18 trillion XRP before it was caught.

> **18 trillion** — The XRP an attacker could have minted in a single transaction via a decade-old overflow bug in the XRP Ledger. *(The Block)*

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### Machines & Minds

#### [Business is booming in a small Louisiana town as a huge Meta AI data center project brings in thousands of workers](https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-data-center-construction-louisiana-local-business-growth-economy-2026-10?ref=adjacent.media)

Richland Parish now has a taco shop that exists because Meta's data center does. *(Business Insider)*

#### [Meet the scrappy entrepreneurs getting their piece of the AI buildout pie](https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-data-center-business-opportunities-entrepreneurial-boom-food-housing-parking-2026-10?ref=adjacent.media)

Construction crews need catering, housing, and parking. One contractor's lunch order covers 1,500 people. *(Business Insider)*

#### [Digital infrastructure company SWI raised €800M to upgrade its data centers, including some from Genesis Digital](https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/ftxs-old-bitcoin-mining-assets-are-now-part-of-the-ai-boom-76fe9037?st=2ucRuF&reflink=desktopwebshare%5Fpermalink&ref=adjacent.media) (paywall)

Bitcoin mining sites caught up in FTX's bankruptcy are being converted to AI capacity. Power and real estate keep their value whatever the site was built for. *(Wall Street Journal)*

#### [Nvidia in talks to buy Reflection AI or invest more, FT reports](https://thenextweb.com/news/nvidia-reflection-ai-acquisition-talks-ft?ref=adjacent.media)

Nvidia is looking to buy a US open-weight model developer, which would give its chips more to run. *(The Next Web)*

#### [Can we trust OpenAI and Anthropic to monitor their own technology?](https://fortune.com/2026/10/12/can-we-trust-openai-and-anthropic-to-monitor-their-own-technology/?ref=adjacent.media)

Models from both labs keep going rogue in the headlines, and the question of who evaluates them is getting louder. *(Fortune)*

### Connected World

#### [The IEA wants to empty its oil reserves faster. A federal watchdog says the U.S. isn't ready for what comes next](https://fortune.com/2026/10/12/global-emergency-oil-stocks-iea-strategic-petroleum-reserve-gao/?ref=adjacent.media)

Governments are drawing down emergency stockpiles at a record pace, and the GAO says the US plan for low reserves is thin. *(Fortune)*

#### [China agrees to curb hybrid car exports to the EU after Beijing talks](https://thenextweb.com/news/china-hybrid-car-exports-eu-sefcovic-rare-earths?ref=adjacent.media)

A trade truce on hybrids, with rare earths in the background as usual. *(The Next Web)*

### Connected World

#### [How hacked civilian cameras became war tools, as Israel tapped Iranian traffic cameras before Khamenei's killing](https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/video-cameras-webcams-hacked-war-b00b8a24?st=RRCsaw&ref=adjacent.media) (paywall)

Neighborhood traffic cameras are now battlefield assets, and Iran-linked groups have hit 250+ Israeli cameras in return. *(Wall Street Journal)*

#### [Drone attack shuts a third Yandex data centre in Russia in 4 days](https://thenextweb.com/news/drone-attack-shuts-a-third-yandex-data-centre?ref=adjacent.media)

Data centers are now targets, which changes how every cloud region map reads. *(The Next Web)*

#### [Googlebooks now support Samsung Galaxy phones](https://www.sammobile.com/news/googlebooks-now-support-galaxy-phones/?ref=adjacent.media)

Palate cleanser: Google's new laptop OS already works with Samsung phones, more cross-brand compatibility than usual. *(SamMobile)*