{"id":1044117,"date":"2026-10-16T10:57:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1044117"},"modified":"2026-10-16T10:57:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:27:30","slug":"56-year-old-chestnut-trees-said-to-be-one-of-americas-last-remaining-chestnut-groves-at-risk-of-being-wiped-out-by-datacenter-labelled-as-one-of-the-largest-single-ai-infrastructure-inve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/16\/56-year-old-chestnut-trees-said-to-be-one-of-americas-last-remaining-chestnut-groves-at-risk-of-being-wiped-out-by-datacenter-labelled-as-one-of-the-largest-single-ai-infrastructure-inve\/","title":{"rendered":"56 year old Chestnut trees, said to be one of America\u2019s last remaining Chestnut Groves, at risk of being wiped out by datacenter labelled as: &#8216;One of the largest single AI infrastructure investments in US history&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bIn 1904, a necrotrophic fungus called chestnut blight began devastating North America&#8217;s native chestnut trees. This fungus, brought across the Pacific on chestnut trees from Japan and China, attacks tree bark and kills the above-ground portions of susceptible trees. The disease eventually wiped out billions of chestnut trees across the US. More than a century later, a grove of approximately 200 blight-resistant American chestnut trees in West Virginia is facing the threat of being cleared to make way for a large-scale artificial intelligence data center.<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\nPlanted in the 1970s, the 56-year-old trees are a valuable source of genetic material that could help restore the species. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bIn 1904, a necrotrophic fungus called chestnut blight began devastating North America&#8217;s native chestnut trees. This fungus, brought across the Pacific on chestnut trees from Japan and China, attacks tree bark and kills the above-ground portions of susceptible trees. The disease eventually wiped out billions of chestnut trees across the US. More than a century later, a grove of approximately 200 blight-resistant American chestnut trees in West Virginia is facing the threat of being cleared to make way for a large-scale artificial intelligence data center. \u200b Planted in the 1970s, the 56-year-old trees are a valuable source of genetic material [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044121,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044117\/revisions\/1044121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}