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The West Virginia data center is not a policy debate or a projection — it is a signed letter of intent with a specific fuel source and a calculable emissions consequence. Microsoft's plan to deploy 1.35 GW of Nvidia chips at the Monarch Compute Campus, running entirely on natural gas, produces an emissions increase that environmental analysts have already quantified. Stand.earth's framing — that the company's decarbonization goals are "essentially dead" [3] — is a conclusion drawn from arithmetic, not advocacy. The specific number being circulated, a roughly 44% increase…