Kentucky farm family rejects $26 million offer for 600 acres of land from unnamed AI data center suitor — declines 7x offer, wants to ‘Stay and hold and feed a nation’

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A farming family in Northern Kentucky just declined a $26 million offer for half of their land from an unnamed major tech company. According to Local12, Ida Huddlestone, 82, owned about 1,200 acres of farmland in the area that sells at about $6,000 an acre. However, a realtor showed up at their doorstep last year, offering Huddlestone and her daughter, Delsia Bare, more than 7 times the going rate for the area. Many other people would’ve jumped at the offer, but the family didn’t budge.

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