Article 73QSZ US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land: ‘I’m not for sale’

US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land: ‘I’m not for sale’

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Niamh Rowe
from Technology | The Guardian on (#73QSZ)

Families are navigating the tough choice between unimaginable riches and the identity that comes with land

When two men knocked on Ida Huddleston's door last May, they carried a contract worth more than $33m in exchange for the Kentucky farm that had fed her family for centuries.

According to Huddleston, the men's client, an unnamed Fortune 100 company", sought her 650 acres (260 hectares) in Mason county for an unspecified industrial development. Finding out any more would require signing a non-disclosure agreement.

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