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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Abilene comes up on BG2 Pod, Big Technology, TBPN, Acquired, the Paul Morris Podcast
The Mistakes with Short-Term Rentals Costing You $1000s
- ▶ 7:19 Jamie Lane It's, and it's the combination of what's going on in terms of that market's change in home values, what's happening in that market in terms of revenue and, and what hosts are earning, and our top market this year ended up being Abilene,… 3 times in the scene
Did someone just figure out how to project finance nuclear?
- ▶ 42:53 Jake Jurowicz Abilene data center campus grew up, and suddenly they were like, you know, and actually we need a lot more megawatts than we originally thought.
OpenAI’s Compute Chief: We Can’t Build Fast Enough | Sachin Katti
- ▶ 31:27 Matt Turck Like the, like, Abilene Techs. 2 times in the scene
Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
- ▶ 49:14 M.G. Siegler Which was going to be in a, in a data center in Abilene, Texas, which by the way, did not start out as a Stargate project. 4 times in the scene
Dylan Patel: NVIDIA's New Moat & Why China is "Semiconductor Pilled”
- ▶ 1:01:55 Dylan Patel Uh, the original one, or part of Abilene's Texas OpenAI, right, like Crusoe.
The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:08:05 Ben Gilbert Their data center in Abilene, Texas, is a massive 1.2 gigawatts.
GPUs, TPUs, & The Economics of AI Explained | Gavin Baker Interview · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 1:03:43 Gavin Baker So I think you were going to see, and you're, this is why you're seeing all this activity in Abilene, you know, because it's in the middle of a big natural gas basin,
The 2045 Superintelligence Timeline: Epoch AI’s Data-Driven Forecast
- ▶ 28:07 Epoch AI Researcher I, we used ChatGPT agent in our, uh, data center research, because a lot of what we have to do is find permits, which are all going to be on janky county by county databases of error permits for, you know, the county that Abilene, Texas is…
- ▶ 54:41 Epoch AI Researcher Um, I think Aveline was an example.
OpenAI and AMD's Megadeal, Sam Altman and Jony Ive’s Bumpy Start. Meta vs. Apple
- ▶ 10:25 M.G. Siegler So like Oracle famously controls the one right now in Abilene, Texas, that's, that's the only one that's actually being built right now in the process of being built while the others are still just sort of being signed and squared away.
Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
- ▶ 28:34 Alex Kantrowitz OpenAI refers to a data center in Abilene, Texas, and another it agreed to in March to use in Denton, Texas, as part of Stargate, even though they are being done without SoftBank.
Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
Liberation Day, Tariffs, US v China Open Source, OpenAI, $CRWV, TikTok | BG2 · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 42:11 Brad Gerstner And you and I are talking about taking the pod down to Abilene, Texas, to see Stargate, to Denton, Texas, um, to see, you know, the core weave facility that they're standing up for OpenAI.
Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:34:57 Ben Gilbert The best example of this is the giant 1.2 gigawatt AI data center that they are building in Abilene, Texas.
- ▶ 2:35:35 David Rosenthal So Crusoe's single AI factory in Abilene will be more than a quarter the size of what powers a huge portion of the internet today.
The case for colocating data centers and generation
- ▶ 30:40 Sheldon Kimber So, you know, while you might have Stargate with its first phase coming on out there, you know, in, in Abilene or wherever it is that, that can come on quickly, um, that's most of the, 2 times in the scene
DeepSeek, Stargate Update, Bees Do Enjoy Honey, Golden Retriever Maxxing, Bring on the Trilly
- ▶ 1:17:57 John Coogan And you can in fact go to Abilene, Texas and start looking around here. 6 times in the scene
Stargate, Executive Orders, TikTok, DOGE, Public Valuations | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 7:02 Brad Gerstner Everybody's talking about five hundred billion, and now this morning we have debates between Elon, who says funding not secured, like they don't have the money, and on the other side we have folks saying, of course, we're already doing… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:38 Brad Gerstner Let's assume that they want to ramp that up, put the pedal to the, uh, to the floor and ramp that up in Abilene for 2026. 3 times in the scene
Explaining the 'Watt-Bit Spread'
- ▶ 41:09 Shayle Kann I appreciate you helping me make sense of it, and I'm sure we're going to do it again soon because we're going to hear about the five gigawatt data center that's getting developed in Abilene, Texas, or whatever.
IKEA (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:27:06 David Rosenthal They currently have 15 gigawatts in their development pipeline, and their coming Abilene, Texas facility alone has over 1.2 gigawatts planned, which will make it one of the largest clusters in the entire world.