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
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 4 — One Rack
How a datacenter is actually built, from a converted factory in Memphis to a greenfield campus in Texas, and what the clock from first ground to first power really measures.
Also discussed in
- Chapter notes Chapter 4 — One Rack
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Greenfield.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/greenfield (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-greenfield-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Greenfield}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/greenfield},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}