🚫 Kentucky farm family rejects $26 million offer for 600 acres of land from unnamed AI data center suitor
A northern Kentucky woman says she declined a $26 million offer for a partial sale of her farmland that has been in her family for generations to build a data center. Ida Huddleston and her family own about 1,200 acres of farmland outside Maysville, Kentucky.
"The big offer is meaningless. 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," — Huddleston's daughter, Delsia Bare, said.
In April, an unnamed Fortune 100 AI company reached out to them to purchase approximately half of the land. Land in Mason County is valued at about $6,000 per acre and the offer of $26 million is ten times this amount."They call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we’re not. My grandfather and great-grandfather and a whole bunch of family have all lived here for years, paid taxes on it, fed a nation off of it," — Huddleston told. "Even raised wheat through the Depression and kept bread lines up in the U.S. of America when people didn’t have anything else."
