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despite being completely unhelpful, this answer is oddly more wholesome than the old "cut down count rings"
then again all the trees being starved of water by the data center may disagree
You don't have to cut a tree down to count the rings. A small, cylindrical core sample can be taken, similar to what we do for ice.