Kentucky family rejects $26M offer for farm land over ‘poison’ data center

A Kentucky family has reportedly rejected an anonymous company's approach to turn a part of their farmland into an AI data centre. According to a report by WKRC (via Tom’s Hardware), land owner Ida Huddleston and her family were offered an extraordinary $26 million by the company which is presumed to be one of the major players in the industry. Despite the huge offer, the family refused to sell the land, which they have owned and farmed for generations. Huddleston said protecting farmland, food and natural resources was more important than the money.“They call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we’re not,” Huddleston said. “We know whenever our food is disappearing, our lands are disappearing, and we don’t have any water—and that poison.