Trying to Make a Buck Off a Data Center, One 6-Pack at a Time
A couple in Abilene, Texas, has opened a convenience store called the Elmdale Outpost to cater to the thousands of workers building the $25 billion Frontier data center complex. The store offers a wide range of products, including beer, to meet the needs of the workers. The data center is part of the half-trillion dollar Stargate project, which was promoted by President Trump as the largest A.I. infrastructure project in history.
- ▪The Elmdale Outpost convenience store is located near a $25 billion data center complex in Abilene, Texas.
- ▪The store caters to the thousands of workers building the data center, offering a wide range of products including beer.
- ▪The data center is part of the half-trillion dollar Stargate project, which aims to build the largest A.I. infrastructure in history.
NYT — US files mainly under news. We currently carry 510 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | NYT — US |
| Canonical URL | https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/us/data-center-construction-workers.html |
| Publication time | Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:00:45 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-29T09:06:01.067Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-29T09:06:01.438Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | oXjfsPZtFH9R |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Trying to Make a Buck Off a Data Center, One 6-Pack at a TimeWhat do you do when a $25 billion complex is under construction nearby? One couple in Abilene had an idea.The Elmdale Outpost convenience store in Abilene, Texas.Credit...Desiree Rios for The New York TimesTrying to Make a Buck Off a Data Center, One 6-Pack at a TimeWhat do you do when a $25 billion complex is under construction nearby? One couple in Abilene had an idea.The Elmdale Outpost convenience store in Abilene, Texas.Credit...Desiree Rios for The New York TimesSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTListen · 13:02 min Share full article157By Juliet Macur and Photographs by Desiree…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at NYT — US.