West Texas Cowboys Are Cashing In on the AI Land Rush

Forty miles outside Abilene, in the highlands between Taylor and Nolan counties, 421 wind turbines have spun since 2006. Horse Hollow was the largest wind farm on earth when it went up…nearly 47,000 acres of cattle country and mesquite scrub, leased from ranch families who mostly kept running cattle underneath the blades. West Texas doing what West Texas does best…selling the wind nobody else wanted. Twenty years later, the same stretch of the state is selling something else nobody has enough of…land with power still attached…