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Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Zhiye Liu

Kentucky family snubs $26 million offer to convert their farmland into an AI data center — 'they call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we’re not,' says landowner

No data center sign on a farm.

According to a WKRC report, an anonymous AI company approached a landowner in Northern Kentucky with an extraordinary $26 million offer to buy a portion of their farmland to build a data center. Despite the life-changing sum, Ida Huddleston and her family, who have owned and cultivated the land for generations, firmly rejected the offer.

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