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Chestnuts Roasting on a Data Center

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An endangered American chestnut grove faces a new threat: A massive data center.

What the coverage shows

Both outlets frame data centers as the main subject, but 404 Media is much more specific and local, focusing on a historic American chestnut grove in West Virginia and, in a second item, an endangered grove facing a massive data center. The Atlantic stays broader, using the story to suggest a wider shift in attention and framing data centers as infrastructure now drawing national and global outrage. 404 Media is the only outlet here to foreground the grove itself.

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21 Oct 13:56 404 MediaFirst Chestnuts Roasting on a Data Center

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