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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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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

American chestnuts are rare to the point you can register individual trees. Groves out west only exist because the blight can't cross the US from the east coast to infect them. This could wipe out some of the last remaining natural american chestnuts in existance.