Video Resources
Current data center coverage in Bastrop County and nationwide — news reports, legislative hearings, and related investigations. Not CCDCFACTS-produced content; source and publish date are listed with each video.
Bastrop County & Cedar Creek — Local Coverage
KVUE — Bastrop County neighbors push back on data centers
Published June 2026. Residents across multiple Cedar Creek-area data center campuses describe town halls that left key questions unanswered.
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KVUE — Texas data center boom could strain state water supply
Published May 12, 2026. Short-form segment on statewide water strain from data center growth.
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Texas Grid, Water & Legislative Response
Houston Public Media — Texas Data Centers Would Require Five Times the Power the State Has Ever Used at Once
Published June 9, 2026. ERCOT grid request data showing proposed data center load exceeding the state's historical peak power usage.
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WFAA — ERCOT considers new approvals for large data centers
Published June 17, 2026. New regulatory vetting processes ERCOT is developing for large-load connection requests.
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TCU Neeley School of Business — Is the Texas Power Grid Stable? Experts Weigh In
ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas and panelists discuss roughly 400,000 megawatts of data center interconnection requests against current grid capacity.
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ABC13 Houston — Data centers seek to tap Texas' energy, regulators are close to approving a new way of vetting requests
Published June 20, 2026.
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FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth — Texas energy leaders answer questions on data centers
Published April 9, 2026. Legislative hearing coverage on ERCOT and grid capacity concerns.
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KETK — Texans urge action on AI data centers amid water woes
Published July 3, 2026. Statewide community pushback tied to aquifer drawdown concerns.
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POWERS Pod — The Texas Power Grid, AI, and the Race for Data Centers | Rep. John McQueeney
Published May 26, 2026. Interview with a Texas House State Affairs Committee member on the forthcoming Data Center Responsibility Act.
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Statewide Investigative — Comparable Case Study
PBS Terra / Floodlight — We Saw What AI Data Centers Don't Want You to See
Published May 28, 2026. Thermal drone investigation of OpenAI's Stargate campus in Abilene, Texas — non-disclosure agreements imposed on neighboring residents, air quality complaints, and gas-turbine power generation on-site.
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Note: This video covers a different company (OpenAI/Oracle/Crusoe, not EdgeConneX), a different county, and a different power/cooling setup (on-site gas generation). It's a same-state precedent for the pattern of secrecy and community impact — not direct evidence about the Cedar Creek project specifically.
Additional Abilene background (text sources):
- TIME, "Broken Bones, Lawsuits, and NDAs: Inside the Worker Safety Concerns at Stargate Data Center," June 2026.
- TIME, "Trump's Stargate AI Data Center in Texas Sparks Housing Crisis," Feb 2026.
- Texas Monthly, "In Abilene, Stargate AI Is Turning Horse Pastures Into Data Farms," Jan 2026.
- MediaJustice, "Stargate Project SW Fact Sheet," Dec 2025.
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