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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center (www.gadgetreview.com)
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[–] SSETranquility@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's the saddest ending to the American Chestnut story I would have imagine.

I need to read the wiki again, but if I may exaggerate, American Chestnut trees were everything people needed to survive. From 1500s to 1800s Chestnuts could be harvested for fuel, food, and shelter. All until the blight and now this..