Chapter 12, claim 3, prevention

The test. A proven prevention above 500 megawatts would move the finding from conversion to prevention at campus scale, which strengthens the claim.

a mixed or partial reading One prevention proven on the standard’s cause, refusal and act, in Oldham County, Kentucky, at a load the local press put at roughly 100 megawatts. On the hostile standard (an announced load, a final refusal, the developer’s act and its admission of cause, each in a primary document) no campus above 500 megawatts yet qualifies; the open gigawatt case is La Osa in Arizona, refused by Pinal County on 26 August 2026, with no termination found.

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31 December 2028

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Primary documents, on the most hostile standard of evidence

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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.

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@misc{dryburgh-chapter-12-claim-3-prevention-2026,
  author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
  title = {{Chapter 12, claim 3, prevention}},
  howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests/2028-17},
  note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}