# Last Chestnut Grove at Risk for AI Data Center

> A West Virginia chestnut grove faces destruction to build an AI data center.
- Title: Last Chestnut Grove at Risk for AI Data Center · Futurism
- Summary: A West Virginia chestnut grove faces destruction to build an AI data center. A 200-acre blight-resistant chestnut grove in West Virginia could be bulldozed…
- Keywords: chestnut grove, west virginia, ai data center, monarch compute campus, nscale, nvidia, caterpillar, blight-resistant chestnut trees, 200 acres, 2250 acres, 8 gigawatts, 20 billion
- Source: Futurism — https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chestnut-grove-last-remaining-anthropic-ai-data-center
- Author: Joe Wilkins
- Published: 2026-10-10T17:01:00+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: chestnut grove, west virginia, ai data center, monarch compute campus, nscale, nvidia, caterpillar, blight-resistant chestnut trees, 200 acres, 2250 acres, 8 gigawatts, 20 billion
## Blight-Stricken Chestnut Trees
Over a century ago, chestnut blight killed 4 billion American trees in 1904.
## Few Remaining Chestnut Groves
Fewer than 4,300 acres of fruit-producing chestnut trees exist across the US as of 2023.
## West Virginia Grove at Risk
A 200-acre blight-resistant chestnut grove in West Virginia could be bulldozed for an AI data center.
## Key takeaway

A 200-acre blight-resistant chestnut grove in West Virginia could be bulldozed for an AI data center.