3 November 2026

xAI powers Mississippi data center with eight turbines made from jet engines

Elon Musk's xAI is powering a data center in Mississippi with eight turbines converted from jet engines, Tom's Hardware reports, citing The New York Times. Each can produce up to 50 megawatts. State authorities issued permits for them, but the environmental group Southern Environmental Law Center has challenged those permits. It accuses the company of undercounting projected emissions and failing to guarantee that the turbines will meet emissions standards, including those for formaldehyde.

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Gemini 4 Carbon edges out Claude Opus 5.5 by one point in Artificial Analysis ranking

Google's new model, Gemini 4 Carbon, has taken first place in the AI model ranking run by Artificial Analysis, Tom's Hardware reports. It scored 59 points, one more than Claude Opus 5.5 and two more than GPT-6 Astra. It is also cheaper than Opus: it completes a single test task for $7.76, compared with $10.04 for Opus. It also came out on top in a test that measures how much a model knows and how often it makes things up. For now, Google is making it available only to select cybersecurity teams.

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Hugging Face CEO: the biggest AI risk comes from a few companies working behind closed doors

Clément Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, believes the biggest AI-related risk is created by a handful of large companies building models in secret. Speaking at the WIRED World Fair in Miami on November 4, he argued that the best protection is developing AI in the open, where anyone can build models. In his view, whoever deploys an AI agent should be legally responsible for what it does. He put the risk of AI leading to human extinction at close to zero.

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OpenAI is calling its data centers “compute campuses”

OpenAI now writes about “compute campuses” instead of data centers, The Verge has noticed. The new term appeared on November 2 in an announcement of the Grid Protectors Program, in which the company promises to cover the costs its facilities create for local power grids. In the entire announcement, which runs about 900 words, “data center” appears only twice. OpenAI did not respond to the outlet's question about the reason for the change.

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