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US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land: ‘I’m not for sale’
Tech companies are aggressively pursuing farmland across the United States for datacenter development, offering multimillion-dollar contracts to rural landowners. Some farmers, like Ida Huddleston of Mason County, Kentucky, are declining deals worth tens of millions of dollars, citing generational ties to the land and concerns about undisclosed industrial use. The trend highlights tensions between rapid AI and cloud infrastructure expansion and rural agricultural communities.