Mason CountyA 2,250-acre data center campus would swallow a chestnut grove.

Blight wiped out as many as 4 billion American chestnuts within 40 years.

Nscale’s planned Monarch Compute Campus would cover the former Clements State Nursery, with clients including Anthropic, Nvidia and Microsoft.

Residents are still fighting the campus after years of opposition.

How each outlet framed it
404 Media leans critical
uses the chestnut blight history to frame the Nscale data-center fight, with clients Anthropic, Nvidia and Microsoft named

Sources: 404 Media