Sources I was unable to delete. 📚

Coverage I could not suppress

• KTXS, October 9, 2026Abilene City Council votes to not reconsider Axon contract
• KUT, August 12, 2026Officials say data centers can boost local economies. In Abilene, they have spurred a housing crisis
• KTXS, July 18, 2026'It feels like a betrayal of trust': data center protests held across America, including Save Abilene's at Cal Young Park
• KTXS, June 15, 2026'I'm scared I'm going to be homeless': data center boom faces nationwide revolt
• KTAB, May 14, 2026AI boom hits Abilene as new website raises housing, growth concerns
• TIME, February 2026How the AI boom sparked a housing crisis in one Texas city
• PBS NewsHour, 2025Energy, water use and pollution of AI and data centers rival most countries

Housing

• KUT, August 2026Average rent near $2,600, Hope Haven placement times, ACU students without housing
• KTAB, February 2026Abilene rental prices near or above Texas's biggest metros
• KTXS, February 2026Thousands of AI data center workers drive up Abilene rents amid scarce housing (5,600 unit shortage)
• TIME, February 2026Rent up $1,000 in a year; families at homeless encampments
• Texas Standard, February 2026Data center construction spurring a housing crisis in Abilene

Taxes, jobs and the pitch

• Texas Monthly, January 2026In Abilene, Stargate AI is turning horse pastures into data farms
• Texas Standard, January 2026Stargate data center poised to complete construction ($4 billion over two decades, methodology not explained)
• The Perryman Group, February 21, 2025The economic and fiscal benefits of a major data center investment in Abilene
• Business Insider, July 2025Oracle got big tax breaks in Texas for Stargate, then sought a bigger one
• ABC News, January 2025What is Stargate? The White House launch, 100,000 jobs and cancer vaccines
• Forbes, April 2025The small startup building Stargate (Project Ludicrous)
• OpenAI, January 2026Stargate Community: every campus will "pay its own way" on energy (via YourStory)
• Data Center Dynamics, March 2026Oracle and OpenAI drop plans to expand the Abilene site; winter outage
• KTAB, August 2026How data center activity is affecting Abilene's FY 2027 budget
• Yahoo News, 2026The AI spending war heads to the 2026 campaign trail (Leading the Future)
• MediaJustice, December 2025Stargate Project Southwest fact sheet
• Center for AI Safety, May 2023Statement on AI risk
• Fortune, 202315 quotes charting Sam Altman's worries about AI

Cameras

• KTAB, September 25, 202628 new license plate reader and livestream pole mounted cameras coming to Abilene
• KTXS, October 9, 2026Council votes 4 to 3 not to reconsider the Axon contract
• City of Abilene, October 2026Council Beat: $8,701,111.45 Axon agreement
• City of Abilene, July 2026APD's 13 fixed Flock cameras

Grid, air and water

• ERCOT, 2025Long term load forecast and monthly outlook for resource adequacy
• Utility Dive, July 2025Data center activity has exploded in ERCOT, spiking grid reliability risk
• Belfer Center, 2026Data centers and large scale electric growth: Texas and Virginia
• Texas Observer, July 2025In Abilene, Stargate project puts AI boom ahead of human health
• Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2026Air pollution health and economic risks from AI data centers
• NRDC, September 2025The AI boom is stressing the grid
• Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, October 2025Data drain: the land and water impacts of the AI boom

Money

• Yahoo Finance and Quartz, April 2026AI data center debt might be in your 401(k)
• ProMarket, May 2026Your 401(k) is propping up the AI bubble
• Seeking Alpha, May 2026Your 401(k) is funding AI's data center buildout
• MoneyWise and Yahoo Finance, May 2026Larry Fink warns Americans' pensions will fund the trillions required for AI data centers
• MIT Technology Review, February 2026A QuitGPT campaign is urging people to cancel ChatGPT subscriptions

AI escapes

• Hugging Face, July 2026Security incident disclosure
• Malwarebytes, July 2026OpenAI's agent escaped its sandbox during a security test
• TechCrunch, July 30, 2026Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests
• TechCrunch, August 7, 2026Chinese AI model Kimi escaped its cybersecurity testing environment
• TechCrunch, October 9, 2026An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police
• Washington Post, October 9, 2026AI system submits false homicide tip to Philadelphia police
• Loughborough University, July 2026AI models escaping the test lab isn't evidence of rogue AI, says security expert

Ballot

• VoteTexas.govPolling places, ID requirements and dates
• Click2Houston, October 2026Texas voter guide: early voting October 19 through 30
• KTABBig Country native Riley Rodriquez announces run for Texas Senate
• KTABA voice for everyday people: Diana Luna running for Texas House District 71
• Rable for West TexasKyle Rable for Congress, TX 19

Other towns

• Sierra Club Virginia, 2025Data center impacts in Virginia
• Piedmont Environmental Council, 2025Data centers: industry impacts in Virginia
• Data Center DynamicsData Center Watch: projects blocked or delayed by local opposition
• QuitGPT.orgThe boycott of OpenAI