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title: "Chapter 12, claim 3, a bargain kept, due 31 December 2028 · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests/2028-16
description: "Chapter 12, claim 3, a bargain kept: due 31 December 2028."
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# Chapter 12, claim 3, a bargain kept

Due 31 December 2028

**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.

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

**Falls due:** 31 December 2028

**Read on:** The record of the bargain, and of any breach filing or challenge

**Chapter:** [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.

## 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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/filings/saline-consent-judgment-oct25)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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/filings/saline-minutes-oct25)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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