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title: "Brownfield: what it means · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/brownfield
description: "Brownfield: A site built on bare land. A brownfield conversion instead turns a serviced building into a datacenter, as the 122-day build did in Memphis."
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# Brownfield

What does “Brownfield” mean?

BrownfieldSee greenfield.

[Greenfield](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/greenfield) A site built on bare land. A brownfield conversion instead turns a serviced building into a datacenter, as the 122-day build did in Memphis. *Chapter 4.*

From *The AI Compute Race*. [Read the book](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#buy)

## Also discussed in

- Chapter notes [Chapter 4 — One Rack](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-4)

## Related terms

- [Greenfield](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/greenfield)
- [Conversion, prevention](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/conversion-prevention)

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- [Campuses](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger)
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- [Glossary](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary)
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- [Notes](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes)
- [Where the book was wrong](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/corrections)
- [Where its sources were wrong](https://dryburgh.com/corrections?book=vol1)
- [The Paper](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/paper)
- [Consent](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/consent)
- [Who builds and pays](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties)

*The AI Compute Race: Five Races, One Machine* is a book by Lee S. Dryburgh, the first volume of THE COMPUTE ECONOMY, published by Dryburgh, an imprint of Contestra OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia; its record closes on 8 November 2026.

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