The Chestnut Grove Caught in the Middle of A Years-Long Data Center Fight

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• 4 404 Media @404media.co: A small grove of historic American chestnut trees has become the site of resistance against an AI data center in West Virginia. @samleecole.… →
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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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• J Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social: A small grove of historic American chestnut trees has become the site of resistance against an AI data center in West Virginia. www.404medi… →
• Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social: An endangered American Chestnut grove is under threat from a proposed data center. West Virginia governor wants to simply move the trees, sa… →
• S Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social: So many poignant recent stories of TREES as potently symbolic victims of this techno-fascist regime www.hcn.org/articles/the... www.thegua… →