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MSB describes the campus as zero-water and direct-to-chip cooled at a PUE of 1.1. No water source, volume or permit figure is published, so the claim cannot be checked against anything.","servingUtility":null,"acreage":390,"totalBuildingSqft":null,"streetAddress":null,"notes":"Early site work is real and independently reported (utility infrastructure Feb 2025, groundbreaking 2025-06-13, land clearing Sept 2025), but the headline scope is developer-claimed and unverified. MSB Global Services promotes a 16,000+ acre site and a 3 GW campus of 30 x 100 MW buildings ($18B, 'optimized for NVIDIA GB300'); local reporting (KSST) openly questions execution, no hyperscale tenant is named, and MSB's own direct commitment is cited as only ~$140M for roads/infrastructure. 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