ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Tech companies are spending many billions of dollars on massive data center projects across the country amid the ongoing AI boom, but not everyone is willing to sell. An 82-year-old Kentucky farmer and her family rejected an offer of more than $26 million to give over roughly half of their 1,200-acre family farm to an unnamed company planning a massive data center project. “They call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we’re not,” Ida Huddleston told the local news outlet WKRC earlier this year. “We know whenever our food is disappearing, our lands are disappearing, and we don’t have any water—and that poison. Well, we know we’ve had it.” Huddleston’s daughter, Delsia Bare, told WKRC that the family has owned the land outside Maysville, Kentucky, for generations and even grew wheat used to help supply bread lines during the Great Depression. Beyond their personal connection to the property, the family has concerns about the project’s water use and potential pollution. Farmland in Mason County is worth roughly $6,000 an acre, according to Fortune. However, Huddleston was offered about $60,000 an acre for 71 acres, while Bare was offered $48,000 an acre for 463 acres. Together, the offers came to $26 million. Read the full story at our link in bio. Story: Bruce Gil #artificialintelligence #datacenters #technology #farms #kentucky