Kentucky Farmer Rejects $26 Million Offer from AI Company

PANews posted on X (formerly Twitter). In Kentucky, a farmer has turned down a $26 million offer from an AI company seeking to purchase part of his farmland to build a data center. The proposed price was ten times the local market value. The farmer expressed his commitment to preserving the land, stating, "If it were up to me, I would stay and protect this land to feed a nation. $26 million means nothing." He further emphasized, "As long as I am on this land and it continues to sustain and shelter me, nothing can destroy me." As computational power expands rapidly, data centers are increasingly consuming farmland. With AI's growing demand for land, the question arises: who will safeguard the remaining arable land?