404 Media: Nscale's Monarch Compute Campus Scheduled to Bulldoze 200-Tree Blight-Resistant Chestnut Grove in November
Summary
404 Media reports that bulldozers at Nscale's 2,250-acre Monarch Compute Campus in Mason County, West Virginia — anchor site for Anthropic's $45B compute lease — are scheduled to clear a 200-tree blight-resistant American chestnut grove in November, the primary seed source used by the American Chestnut Foundation to restore the species statewide. Governor Morrisey's office says the trees will be relocated by late 2027 under arborist supervision paid for by Nscale, but a forest pathologist warns relocation can kill mature chestnuts within 2–5 years.
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After this backlash, Nscale is saying they've never planned to "bulldoze" the trees, as viral social media posts claimed. But they and the governor's office do plan to move them, which experts say will almost definitely …
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