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title: "Chapter 12, claim 3, prevention, due 31 December 2028 · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH"
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description: "Chapter 12, claim 3, prevention: due 31 December 2028."
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# Chapter 12, claim 3, prevention

Due 31 December 2028

**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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**Falls due:** 31 December 2028

**Read on:** Primary documents, on the most hostile standard of evidence

**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.

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