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- Nscale will bulldoze a grove of 200 blight-resistant American chestnut trees in West Virginia for a data center.
- The 1970s-planted orchard serves as a genetics library and West Virginia’s primary seed source for chestnut restoration.
- Monarch Compute Campus will cover over 2,250 acres and provide 8 gigawatts of AI computing power to firms like Anthropic.
- The investment exceeds $20 billion, ranking among the largest U.S. AI infrastructure projects.