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title: "Conversion, prevention: what it means · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/conversion-prevention
description: "Conversion, prevention: The two outcomes chapter 12 keeps apart for consent."
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# Conversion, prevention

What does “Conversion” mean?

Conversion, preventionThe 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.*

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

The book uses this term in a sense of its own.

## Where the book uses it

- [Chapter 12 — Cross-Examination](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-12)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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/scorecard#row-12)
- Scorecard indicator [OpenAI/Stargate conversion in cohort](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/scorecard#row-13)
- Dated test [Chapter 12, claim 4, the frozen cohort, due 31 December 2027](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests#2027-26)
- Dated test [Chapter 12, claim 3, prevention, due 31 December 2028](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests#2028-17)

## 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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources/filing#nmed-acoma-east-incomplete-dec25)

## Related terms

- [Brownfield](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/brownfield)
- [Prevention](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/prevention)
- [Energized](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/energized)
- [Southaven](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/southaven)
- [Covenant](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/covenant)
- [Consent](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/consent)
- [Abilene](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/abilene)
- [Announced against energized](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/announced-against-energized)
- [Campus ledger](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/campus-ledger)
- [Consent as a race](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/consent-as-a-race)
- [Credit protection](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/credit-protection)
- [Cross-examination](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/cross-examination)

From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.

- [Campuses](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger)
- [Tests](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests)
- [Scorecard](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/scorecard)
- [Data](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/data/releases)
- [Chapter by chapter](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/companion)
- [The record at a glance](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/observatory)
- [The machine](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/machine)
- [One campus, four futures](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/hyperion)
- [Glossary](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary)
- [People](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/people)
- [Sources](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources)
- [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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