One of America's Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

Teever 38 points 10 comments October 07, 2026
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goatlover

This news after the last centuries old cottonwood was knocked down in Arizona to clear way for an border wall with to stop a low level of illegal migration despite protests and lawsuits from the locals.

Gravityloss

America is a huge place. Why specifically here? There's countless abandoned industrial areas and so on.

fnordpiglet

It is a little odd to read obviously Claude 5/4.x prose highlighting the potential for a data center for Claude to raze a natural heritage. The fact it caveats literally every single sentence with its florid prose is the dead give away. Soon there will be a story like this about one of americas last journalists being buried in the cement foundation of a data center.

alex43578

AI slop regurgitating anti-AI talking points.

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