di Viviana Mazza, US Correspondent
Residents (on both the right and the left) are opposed to the massive industrial project planned for Anthropic
It is a quintessential and idyllic Texas landscape. This area is considered some of the best grazing lands in the state. Volunteers from the organization Lost Pines Watch are waiting for us on the road in front of a ranch with folding chairs and the lowing of cows in the background. It’s hard to imagine that a massive data center will be built in this vast open space, accompanied by a natural gas power plant large enough to supply electricity to a city of one million people. “We’re not against development, nor are we against Artificial intelligence in general. We simply don’t want a power plant that shouldn’t be built here,” say Cameron Allen, 43, a farmer and used-book seller who is an eighth-generation Texan, and Adam Smith, 47, a sound engineer who moved here from Ohio.
Here in Cedar Creek, in unincorporated Bastrop County, a coalition of landowners and farmers—from both the left and the right—is opposing the project, which is not just a data center but an industrial complex: the Pacifico power
