‘You Can’t Get Food Out of a Data Center’: Family Rejects Tech Company’s $26 Million Offer for Their Farm
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.
- ▪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.
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| Publication time | Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:45:37 +0000 |
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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.
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