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‘You Can’t Get Food Out of a Data Center’: Family Rejects Tech Company’s $26 Million Offer for Their Farm
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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.
For some, the money is too good to pass upStill, other nearby landowners agreed to sell and in May Data Center Dynamics reported that the Mason County Fiscal Court approved the rezoning of 28 properties totaling roughly 2,080 acres for a proposed data center development.
In some cases, that opposition has already helped defeat some proposed data center projects.
Even famously pro-business Texas has ordered regulators to audit every large data center project seeking to connect to the state’s main power grid.
“I say they’re a liar, and the truth isn’t in them,” Huddleston told WKRC.