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Please explain your reasoning about the word campus. You seem to think it's obvious but I'm not seeing it.

A campus is a group of buildings and land that are part of one institution. I've been in multiple campuses that have power plants (and where the primary purpose of the campus is not generating power).

The idea of a datacenter campus that makes its own power is a reasonable one.

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They didn’t say they bought a power plant. They bought a campus next to the power plant. That implies that it’s not generating power. How you could be confused I don’t understand. I get that headlines are often misleading or sensationalised. But this one isn’t.

> They didn’t say they bought a power plant. They bought a campus next to the power plant. That implies that it’s not generating power. How you could be confused I don’t understand. I get that headlines are often misleading or sensationalised. But this one isn’t.

The title doesn't say "next to". It says "960MW nuclear data center campus".

What makes it "nuclear"? Well in this case it's because it's next to a nuclear power plant, but it would be just as valid to use that wording for a campus that contains a nuclear power plant. In fact I think the latter is more straightforward.

And funnily enough if you look at the picture, it looks like it's one big campus too!

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