The test. Falsified by evidence that consent is a cost that can be paid once, an American campus of at least 100 megawatts where a community that opposed it accepted an enforceable bargain, and where a year of operation under that bargain then passed without a breach filing or a renewed challenge.
held Held so far. No such campus was found on the American record to September 2026, a finding about the record searched, not proof that no such place exists.
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- The record of the bargain, and of any breach filing or challenge
- Chapter
- 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.
Filings that bear on it
- RD Michigan Property Owner I LLC, Feldkamp Siblings LLC, Dennis and Lynn Ellen Finkbeiner, Wilkin Farm Properties I LLC and Dennis C. and Alice M. Wilkin v. Saline Township, consent judgment, Washtenaw County Circuit Court, Civil Action 2025-001577-CZ, entered 15 October 2025 before Hon. Julia B. Owdziej
A Michigan court’s consent judgment of 15 October 2025 approved the final site plan for a data center on about 575 acres in Saline Township, capped its sound at 55 decibels and gave third parties no cause of action.
- Saline Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan, minutes of the Special Meeting of the Township Board and Planning Commission of 1 October 2025, with the Regular Meeting minutes of 15 October 2025
Saline Township’s board, after a closed session with its attorneys, voted 4 to 1 on 1 October 2025 to try to settle the data center lawsuit, its attorney later saying the board was not in favor of the project.
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How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Chapter 12, claim 3, a bargain kept.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests/2028-16 (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-chapter-12-claim-3-a-bargain-kept-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Chapter 12, claim 3, a bargain kept}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests/2028-16},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}