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Why Abilene, TX is an AI Boomtown

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Dave Friedman
Jun 04, 2025
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If you’re looking for the future of AI, don’t look at San Francisco. Look at Abilene.

Abilene, Texas — population 125,000, more churches than startups, home to an active Air Force base and a few cattle auctions — is quietly becoming a node in the global AI substrate. And not because it has top-tier researchers or a founder scene. It doesn’t. That’s the p…

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