The two outcomes chapter 12 keeps apart for consent. Conversion turns opposition into a schedule and a covenant while the machine runs, as the Memphis and Southaven turbines were permitted, litigated and given a retirement calendar. Prevention is a named campus ended, not delayed or moved, because the neighbors said no. The word conversion has two other senses in the chapters: a campus converting from announced to energized, and a brownfield conversion, a building turned into a datacenter. Chapter 12.
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The book uses this term in a sense of its own.
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 12 — Cross-Examination
The book’s own thesis put on trial: five claims, each scored against the record and given a dated test that could prove it wrong.
Where the record uses it
- Scorecard indicator Frozen 40-campus conversion
- Scorecard indicator OpenAI/Stargate conversion in cohort
- Dated test Chapter 12, claim 4, the frozen cohort, due 31 December 2027
- Dated test Chapter 12, claim 3, prevention, due 31 December 2028
Sources that use it
- New Mexico Environment Department, Air Quality Bureau, “Incomplete Determination of Air Quality Permit Application No. 10732 (Agency Interest No. 41309 - PRN20250001)-East Microgrid,” letter from the bureau’s PSD unit supervisor on the application of Acoma, LLC, 17 December 2025 (the application “was received by the Department on November 17, 2025” and “your application was ruled administratively incomplete on December 17, 2025”; Acoma “reports a potential to emit (PTE) for the East Microgrid of up to 521 tpy NOx” and “requests a PSD synthetic minor emissions limit cap for East Microgrid of 248.90 tpy NOx”; “A PSD synthetic minor limit for NOx that is 1.1 tons away from the 250.0 tpy PSD threshold is not practically enforceable”; “the Department requires that Acoma, LLC propose a lower synthetic minor limit or submit a Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) permit application for the East Microgrid”; “the ambient air will also be impacted by the nearby West Microgrid emitting approximately the same quantities of air pollutants as the East Microgrid”; the two-page letter read whole on 13 October 2026 in the house’s capture of 5 October 2026; the department’s determination on the West Microgrid is not held). In the Sources
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Conversion, prevention.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/conversion-prevention (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-conversion-prevention-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Conversion, prevention}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/conversion-prevention},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}