One of America’s Last Remaining Chestnut Groves Could Soon Be Wiped Out to Make Room for an AI Data Center
Futurism
Read the full articleA rare grove of 200 blight-resistant American chestnut trees in West Virginia faces destruction to build the Monarch Compute Campus, a massive $20B AI data center by Nscale, Nvidia, and Caterpillar. The grove is a vital genetic resource for restoring the species.

