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Posted on 03/23/2026 6:25:06 PM PDT by RandFan
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NEW: Kentucky family rejects $26 million offer to convert part of their farm into a data center despite the offer being about 10 times the going rate for farmland in the area.
"If it's my way, I'll stay and hold and feed a nation. 26 million doesn't mean anything."
"As long as I'm on this land, as long as it's feeding me, as long as it's taking care of me, there's nothing that can destroy me if I've got this land."
Video: Local 12 WKRC
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$5 water rights are involved.
God bless that family.
Is their last name McArthur?
The Southern Agrarians would be proud.
$26M is a lot of money. I don’t get it but i am sure they can find land elsewhere for the data center.
Ashburn, VA is paying 4M per acre…
“$5 water rights are involved.”
Old news. As OP you should clarify by stating the company bought up the neighbors land.
They did.
“Atta boy, Luther!”
I got a coupla’ acres i can let loose for 10 million dollars. It’d be a sacrifice but I want to do my part.
Thing is, I guess they enjoy their way of life and love working their farm. No amount of money is probably worth it to them to give up their very way of life.
Kentucky governor Adolf Andy Beshear will use eminent domain to buy the land for 1/3 of the value, sue them in court, and bankrupt the family paying lawyers, it’s what democrats do. Spit... and Piss on your grave.
And how many families are going to lose their homes to the property tax man when these megalomaniac creeps run the property assessments through the roof?
They've already found the land. The next step will be taking it for free.
I'll be curious to see where this family is five years from now. I'll bet they'll own neither the land or the $26 million they were offered for it.
Now suddenly they discover profligate use of electricity for "AI" can make them even wealthier, wealthy beyond what anyone can imagine. Suddenly nary a peep about "climate change".
Everyone was supposed to drive a putt-putt hoopty car. But since AI, it's a gold rush for the upper 0.1% of the country. It becomes misery for the other 99.9 percent of the citizenry.
If the data centers were self contained units, where they trucked in the water and trucked out contaminated water to a proper facility, Id find it less problematic. But they don’t. The data centers socialize the environmental costs onto society.
Life will be so wonderful when the entire planet is covered with data centers, solar farms, wind turbines and EVs.
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