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Saturday, 6/27, 11:43 PM
The Strangest AI Stock of 2026 Is a West Texas Land Owner
- Texas Pacific Land Corporation makes no chips and writes no code.
- It owns about 880,000 acres of West Texas dirt and collects royalties on the oil, water and easements beneath and across it — and that has turned the 137-year-old land trust into one of 2026's more improbable artificial-intelligence plays.


