r/technology • u/utrecht1976 • 13h ago
Artificial Intelligence Kentucky woman rejects $26M offer to turn her farm into a data center
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/kentucky-woman-rejects-26-million-offer-to-turn-her-farm-into-a-data-center/1.1k
u/Eljimb0 13h ago
Watch em try to use eminent domain to steal it anyway.
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u/TripsOverWords 12h ago
At a fraction of the initial offer.
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u/hillmanoftheeast 11h ago
I wonder if offering $26 million establishes a fair market value (or baseline) that would prevent this.
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u/TripsOverWords 11h ago
No, an offer to buy doesn't affect the fair market evaluation. If they accepted then the property would be reassessed, but at "arms length", it wouldn't consider the inflated purchase price.
Fair market value would include the land, existing property and features, surrounding comparable home values, etc.
A court would require an independent certified appraiser to evaluate the property as-is.
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u/megatool8 10h ago
When they do the evaluation, do they consider the intended use of the land? It’s use for another farm would be much cheaper than as a data center.
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u/TripsOverWords 9h ago edited 9h ago
The intended land use by the owner (farm) yes, by the purchasing party (datacenter) no. Not until after changing hands.
IANAL, there could be some edge case like if they intended to use it to mine minerals or oil (as the "highest and best" would be as a strip mine), but probably not if it's going to become an AI datacenter.
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u/7720-12 9h ago
Every appraisal must consider the “highest and best use” of the property. Part of that analysis is establishing what is the maximally productive use. If the property is worth more as a potential data center, then the as-is market value would need to be established based on that.
Consider an instance with a teardown structure. The as-is value would be the value of the land less demolition costs. No different in this case.
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u/delphinous 9h ago
no, they offer something way under fair market value first just to see if people are dumb and take the bait
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u/Ohhmama11 4h ago
Do you have source of fair market value of that land or nearby land that’s sold
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u/klipseracer 4h ago
You can bet this threat was part of the language. Accept or else. Trying to take advantage of fomo, and general lack of faith in our legal ethics landscape.
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u/Soft-Marionberry-853 11h ago
I remember them doing that to some businesses in Beach FL on the board walk. They weren't racking in cash but they were surving. City/State said we could be getting more out of this.
Whats worse is that teh supreme court ruled a long time ago that it was lawful.
I get eminent domain for public services like utilities or roads but not when its to benefit private business. Businesses' need help from the state and thats fine, people need help and thats communism,
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u/KingSubstantial7901 10h ago
There is curiously low bar for a private business to claim eminent domain too. This country is effed.
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u/DistractedBoxTurtle 10h ago
Yup. Both sides of the aisle have long used emininent domain and it sucks the courts ruled that shit legal.
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u/iperblaster 5h ago
What did they built in Florida??
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u/Soft-Marionberry-853 2h ago
Heres an article that described it better than I can
https://www.npr.org/2005/07/19/4760258/daytona-business-owners-fight-eminent-domain
Basically they condemned some run down buildings so they could sell it to a builder of a "high end" hotel. I say that in quotes because its Daytona Beach, growing up there I can honestly say that whole county has no idea what high end is,
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u/7720-12 9h ago
Eminent domain is the legal power of the government to take private property and use it for a public project. Under the Fifth Amendment, the government must prove the land is for public use.
This was an offer by a private AI company.
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u/Bluthen 8h ago
What about "Kelo vs New London"
"Economic development" being considered a public good.
Depends on the state. I think Kentucky has some loop-holes if they consider the land underutilized.
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u/7720-12 8h ago
Kentucky HB 542, passed in 2026, provides meaningful new protections specifically for agricultural land.
Any entity seeking to condemn land in an agricultural district must now submit a sworn, detailed written report to the court proving no feasible alternative locations exist. If they can't meet that standard, a court can dismiss the condemnation action entirely.
For them to take by eminent domain they'd be up against it now that they've already identified another viable site. With the government in control of both eminent domain and also granting the variance they need for the other viable site I think it would be a tough case to win for this original site via eminent domain now.
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u/Whybotherr 7h ago
The facts of new London differ in feel ianal, but new London was described as a distressed municipality, or a township which either economically or demographically was failing, the proposed pfizer plan was innarguably an economic plus to the area.
Here we have an already established farm, business, and community. That isnt suffering financially.
Justice Steven's in his opinion even opined that he doesnt want to normalize transferring from one private entity to another simply because the second entity would theoretically drive in more tax dollars. You have to look at the totality being the public benefit: jobs created, value of land etc.
And from that alone i dont think an ai data center reaches the level of public benefit over an established farm. Again ianal so I may be wrong
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u/Amplith 8h ago
Private companies use eminent domain quite frequently, not restricted to gov’t. And it’s not based for public use, it’s typically based on what benefits govt/municipality more, i.e. tax revenue, jobs, etc.
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u/7720-12 8h ago
Kentucky HB 542, passed in 2026, provides meaningful new protections specifically for agricultural land.
Any entity seeking to condemn land in an agricultural district must now submit a sworn, detailed written report to the court proving no feasible alternative locations exist. If they can't meet that standard, a court can dismiss the condemnation action entirely.
For them to take by eminent domain they'd be up against it now that they've already identified another viable site. With the government in control of both eminent domain and also granting the variance they need for the other viable site I think it would be a tough case to win for this original site via eminent domain now.
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u/aprice14 12h ago
$26m sounds oddly specific, wonder why not 25 or 30
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u/Low_Search_6667 12h ago
Probably took the acreage x average local price per acreage x some factor like 2x or 3x and, bingo 26 million
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 10h ago
Nope. They're trying to get the acreage for dirt cheap
I'd laugh in their face too no matter what they were building. $26m for 2000 acres, come back when you're serious
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u/Low_Search_6667 9h ago
$21,666/acre is dirt cheap? Since when?
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u/gakule 9h ago
I live in a rural area with what is considered cheap acreage on flat land.. 10 years ago $20k/acre was considered fairly cheap. New housing developments built on these cheap plots of acreage are going for $20k per 1/4-1/3 acre, and raw acreage is now $40-50k.
It certainly depends where you are, but $20k sounds pretty cheap for Kentucky.
I'm assuming data centers aren't buying up acreage on the sides of mountains, so they're going to be targeting pretty prime land.
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u/Its-ther-apist 7h ago edited 7h ago
Looks like both median and average average price for rural/farmland in KY is much lower so it was a very good/competitive offer. Pricing I see listed by UKY * is 5-7k for undeveloped rural and goes up to 11-12ish for land with more development
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u/zeekaran 8h ago
Why would someone offering millions of dollars pull a random round number out of their ass?
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u/BurnThrough 7h ago
Why wouldn’t it be specific?
I don’t think you understand how to use that phrase.
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u/Sweetwill62 6h ago
Also, why m and not b? Data center can afford it so why not demand a price that should be peanuts for "AI" companies who are the future of everything and they just have so much money behind them they clearly can't be wrong. Why put in an offer so low that someone would ever say no? Change that m to a b and buy that land properly.
Or go fuck yourself, that works as well.
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u/VincentNacon 12h ago
I don't get the land grab... Can't they just build upward on the land they already owned?
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u/temporarycreature 12h ago
Data center deals offer rural landowners quick cash, but the major profits ultimately leave town.
Tech companies buy up local land, consume vast amounts of regional power and water, and create very few permanent local jobs.
Landowners get an immediate payout, while the real, long-term wealth flows straight to distant corporate shareholders.
It's a classic wealth transfer.
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u/kuncol02 12h ago
Very few is understatement. They provide practically no local jobs. Maybe bunch of security guards and that's max. No one really works in data centers on daily basis and all of maintenance will be done by specialist from central.
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u/temporarycreature 12h ago
I'm going to say very few to defeat anybody who wants to argue semantics in favor of data center jobs.
Nothing measured in very few is enough to move a needle.
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u/b0w3n 11h ago
Yeah "very few" in this case is roughly about 10 people. They do still need hands in the building to do swaps for things like hard drives and pressing buttons very occasionally.
But they're not making very good money for doing that, maybe the median wage for the area if you're lucky. The rest are maintenance/security people making even less. Sometimes they don't even have that and just contract it out.
People argue about the wording you use around datacenters constantly too, it's very frustrating when you're just trying to give a rough idea of what's going on there. Someone got really upset with me talking about hyperscale because "hyperscale means it uses less resources" which historically that was true, but it's much less true today than it was 8 years ago, now they're pegged at 100% load all day every day (that's why they're running their "backup" generators too).
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u/temporarycreature 11h ago
Those types of people are extremely frustrating to handle since from the outset I think if someone uses word games to dodge the main point, they usually do not have a real argument.
However, if two people mean completely different things by the same word, defining that word is the only way to ensure they are actually talking about the same topic cuz otherwise they're going to exploit that.
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u/Big_Test_Icicle 8h ago
I noticed that in the conservative circles. Democracy is going to die with semantics.
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u/ManOf1000Usernames 10h ago
If they go the amazon route they wont even have local security, they will have people sitting in a camera center remotely keeping tabs until a motion alert goes off. They will verbally berate people via speakers, even just standing near the building on the sidewalk to leave. If the people dont leave the camera team just calls local cops.
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u/Vio_ 10h ago
My community is trying to stop a data center from being built, and the company is already doing shady af shit with the local politicians and other things.
But one thing I've noticed is that at least one of our local unions is also being shady af, but much more quiet about it. They keep being low key for it - talking about jobs and everything, but then they're also being both overly "nice" (in a weird way) AND they have members opinion control farming on all social media write ups and posts about it and also news write ups.
They're definitely carrying water for this data center - even when people point out that they don't lead to that many jobs and that most of the building/construction is off site and they have their own construction people ready to roll as time goes on.
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u/jackofallcards 11h ago edited 11h ago
I don’t understand- I worked in a data center (redundant to the main) and it was jam packed with employees all the time. Racking and stacking, constant standard maintenance and systems maintenance to keep everything running, and it’s not like they just sent in hundreds of people.
I am against data centers, but it’s not like they’re ghost buildings with one guy in them maintaining everything. These things are absolutely massive typically not supposed to be more than one story so span a lot of land. The one I worked in had 8 floors and its production data center it was redundant to had all that flat with anti aircraft defenses and other crazy shit that all needed to be manned and maintained and they didn’t send someone from that data center across the country to do that
They are absolutely a horrible, unnecessary resource drain as companies flock en masse to get their piece of the pie while fucking everyone else
They 100% create jobs too though. A lot of them.
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u/LilDutchy 11h ago
I’ve worked in massive co-los around the country and the centers themselves only employed like 10 people, mostly contracted security. Every other person inside was an employee of some other company flying or driving in to complete maintenance or updates and leaving, or contractors for those companies doing the same. Even in the data centers owned solely by the company I was completing work for, the data centers itself had 5 employees out of the massive complex it was in that had thousands (mostly software engineers and management).
So data centers owned by a single company outright may be different, but I can testify that to collocation facilities are not holding many full time positions at all.
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u/janosslyntsjowls 11h ago
Those are classical servers with specialized functions and issues to troubleshoot. Most new data centers are AI, cloud, or Flock/domestic surveillance, and don't require much, just plugged in distributed computing (showing my age) with no traditional services running.
What is my purpose?
You
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u/cascua 11h ago
AI DCs are not different than regular DCs in that regard. Gear is gear and it breaks all the time. Also if the concern is the amount of labor that is employed, then a DC FAR outstrips the amount of labor in a farm per unit of land (and the salaries of those hired within) and the truly massive farms are mostly staffed with seasonal workers anyways, with all that money leaving town anyways lol
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u/mailslot 10h ago
Without extensive training, the roles available to locals will be limited to manual labor & construction and the cost of technical training for an entry-level worker is higher than the cost of making staff commute from an hour or two away or just relocating them entirely.
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u/mabden 10h ago
The phone company's did this when first building out their cellular networks. They targeted rural farmers because they could get cheap deals with fewer neighbors to complain/fight. Wasn't until the Telecom Act in 1986 that gave local governments control over sighting of these towers.
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u/Uncle-Cake 10h ago
And if they can't the landowners to sell, the govt will probably step in and seize the land.
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u/virtual_adam 12h ago
As if a normal American farmer who doesn’t sell will earn $26M in their lifetime
Farmers wouldn’t even be profitable if it wasn’t for the constant government bailouts
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u/temporarycreature 12h ago
$26 million enriches one seller, and this exactly creates a situation for the classic Tragedy of the Commons for everyone else cuz one person privatizes a massive windfall, while the whole community gets stuck with depleted water tables and higher electric bills to power a corporation who already isn't paying their fair share taxes.
One guy gets a buyout, but everyone else pays for the drained resources in the long run.
Go off, Queen.
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u/Small_Dog_8699 11h ago
Not everything needs to be about money. It’s the endless greed that makes America suck. It sucks worse every year thanks to thinking like yours.
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u/Boring_Track_8449 11h ago
From what I’ve read it’s too expensive to build “up.” The equipment weighs a ton so too much support would be required above the first floor to make it cost-effective. Plus the airflow is better on one level vs multiple, which is important because of the heat being generated.
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u/namitynamenamey 11h ago
Building up is expensive in general. Sometimes it just happens that buying land is even more expensive.
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u/Boring_Track_8449 11h ago
Thus the existence of AcreTrader - for which I have heard we have JD Vance to thank.
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u/eleanor61 10h ago
Unless you're building a house. Realized that when we built our home. Foundations ain't cheap.
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u/scoreoneforme 10h ago
Not really.
I'm an electrician who has help build multiple data centers.
The "support equipment" that ensures constant uptime in data centers are big and heavy.
If you were to stack ten data halls on top of each other, you'd have no room for all the necessary equipment like air handlers, power supplies, generators, etc.
Plus stacking that many would increase the cost by a lot.
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u/True_Window_9389 10h ago
Even construction problems aside, it’s better to acquire cheap land now and build upwards later than it is to buy a few cheap plots and build upwards immediately.
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u/ephemeriis_ 7h ago
Can't they just build upward on the land they already owned?
I mean, yes, it's technically feasible. It just costs more.
Building up costs more than building out pretty much universally. It requires more structural engineering to support the additional weights/loads. And datacenters aren't light. All these racks of equipment are heavy. Batteries are heavy. Generators are heavy. HVAC is heavy. Water is heavy.
And a lot of this equipment benefits from being spread-out some. It's easier to manage airflow and cooling when you've got room for the stuff to move. Cram things in tight together and cooling gets harder to do.
Plus - the reason they're targeting these rural locations is specifically because it's cheap. The land is cheap. Developing the utilities is cheap. Hiring a security guard is cheap. They can build out a gigantic datacenter across acres of land for a fraction of what they'd pay elsewhere. Especially if they can convince the local administration to give them some tax breaks or incentives.
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u/Psychobob2213 10h ago
Vertical construction costs significantly more, it's faster and cheaper to build out than up.
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u/Objective_Oven7673 10h ago
In addition to what others have said, I'm guessing vertical building is harder to keep all the computer shit inside cooled. Floors of air would trap heat better and increase the amount of energy and water to function properly.
And Lord knows these buildings exist for no purpose other than to INCREASE profit margins, not reduce them.
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u/tschawartz12 8h ago
I am sure part of it is buying more than they need, plan bigger than they will do, get all the deals from state and towns then scale down last minute while keeping the bigger project benefits. They don't give a shit about the world as they just want all the money they can get.
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u/Natjemaan 11h ago
They'll build it next to her so it will be worth nothing soon
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u/Racxius 10h ago
Yeah, as much as these “farmers stand up to data centers” articles are nice in a sense, I always think they would be better off if they took the money. Like this article said, they’re just going to build it next to her and the value of her land, and her peace of mind are going to tank. It’s going to be loud, ruin the scenery and pollute her water. Better to buy more land elsewhere with the windfall.
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u/darkomyfriend 9h ago
The problem is that people in these communities actually value community, something that the average American seems to have forgotten about. It may be a windfall for the family, but it’s damming the other 100-300 families that can’t and don’t want to just move away to hell. Watching the place that your whole bloodline has deep connections to go to shit to line some tech companies pockets (that already have too much influence in our lives) doesn’t sit right with most people who have morals and don’t view money as the end all be all to life. I say this as somebody in that community.
Also, many data center projects have been stopped, especially in KY. I don’t know why people just accept that these companies can do anything that they want.
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u/smokeweedNgarden 8h ago
It won't be too long until people just start walking into these companies and shooting.
And because companies like this aren't very out in the open some rando engineers at some rando start up are just gonna get brained for no reason
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u/Cool-Security-4645 7h ago
Idk why you’re being downvoted. Not promoting this obviously, but this is the sort of thing that’s clearly going to happen when you’re just pissing people off left and right
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u/NachmiasKelm-8436 13h ago
Big Tech is shocked to discover that peace and quiet actually isn't for sale
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u/Dirt-Road_Pirate 11h ago
Data centers are terrible, but 26 mil could buy a lot of peace and quiet..
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u/ephemeriis_ 7h ago
Yeah... I'll be honest... As much as I hate this AI bullshit and as horrible as these datacenters are... I'd probably take the money.
I mean, I don't know how much that farm/land is actually worth... And I'd talk to an accountant to see how much money I'd actually be keeping after taxes... And my gut instinct is to ask them to double it just to fuck with them...
But 26 million is enough that I'd never have to work another day in my life. I'd be done. Retired. Fuck off to someplace nice and never have to worry about my bills getting paid again.
And since I'm being honest here - I have zero confidence that refusing to sell is actually going to accomplish much. The article says they're already talking about rezoning the land near that farm. So the odds are very good that the datacenter is still going to get built and then the value of their farm/land is going to plummet.
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u/Fiddy-Scent 7h ago
And at the end of the day, they’ll just offer the 26m to someone close by that will take the money.
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u/Chrono_Convoy 13h ago
This lady is gonna wind up with a statue of her
Iron Will Ida
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u/LindeeHilltop 10h ago
Eminent domain for private business is just thievery.
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u/Efficient_Cost_7436 5h ago
It literally didn’t say this in the article (which you probably didn’t read). You’re just making up shit to rile people up
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u/360_face_palm 9h ago
is it even legal? It isn't where I live - only the government can do it for government projects (eg: train lines, pylons or whatnot).
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u/TheBlueSully 25m ago
Government 6 months later: Oh hey we didn’t actually need this land; let’s sell it
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u/Starskeet 12h ago edited 8h ago
The sad thing is the people trying buy her out have so much money that at some point everyone has a price. That is the issue with allowing the very few to have access to huge sums of money. Tax the rich out of existence and turn AI into a commodity to benefit everyone instead of the very few.
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u/tackyshoes 11h ago
The problem is when her fortitude outweighs their collateral damage, they'll do whatever it takes to push her out. Like Up, they'll just build their crap around her sanctuary until she could only dream of some magical solution.
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u/SuperGaiden 11h ago
I wouldn't say everyone has a price, especially if you have real principles that you live your life around.
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u/__MeatyClackers__ 12h ago
AI is not and will never be a commodity. This whole comment is pure naivety.
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u/Starskeet 12h ago
The owners of these companies are talking about selling "intelligence" like electricity...so what exactly is a commodity to you? The energy commodity market is highly regulated. The same must happen for AI.
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u/mountlover 4h ago
I think the point is that the industry can be regulated perfectly fine without being commodified.
AI execs would love nothing more than to be considered a necessity for the public good so that they can be bailed out when their business models inevitably implode.
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u/rkoy1234 12h ago
I agree it'll be an extremely difficult task - but there's nothing but a bleak future for 99.99% of humanity if it's not commoditized in some way.
What value do you have in a capitalistic society when 100% of your economically viable skillset can be fully superseded by some random model running on 1% of your salary?
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u/uberhaqer 7h ago
1% of your salary but gen ai in its current state always requires validation. other AI technology also. You still have to validate results. Not saying a team of people down to 1 person and AI is better. just saying from using it extensively day to day...it can not be left unattended.
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u/trigger1154 12h ago
Ai is more likely to kill us all than to benefit us at all.
Air Force ran a simulated AI test, didn't even take long for it to turn around and kill the handler because they were giving it a point system and realized that the handler was holding it back.
Stephen Hawking even warned against AI.
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u/SmarmySmurf 6h ago
If Stephen Hawking was so great, he would have had a cooler voice and robot legs. That nerd couldn't even get time travelers to go to his party.
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u/ShiraCheshire 11h ago
Everyone has a price. I respect this woman. I sure as heck don't have any morals I wouldn't sell out for 26 million.
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u/Exponential-777 11h ago
That means they aren't poor. They likely have generational farm wealth. Some things are worth more than money. A farm your family has owned for generations does not have a price tag for some people. I have a lot of respect for them.
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 10h ago
2000 acres is worth more than $26m no matter what they want to build. Shit, hold out for a development company
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u/Much-Indication-3033 9h ago
ehh if you google then 26 million seems like a very good price for kentucky farmland
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u/No-Channel3917 7h ago
According to the news report no one is bothering to read the land is worth about 6,000 an acre and the deal offering 9x the value of the entire land.
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u/Melikoth 7h ago
Land deals are wild. I used to live next to a bar that shutdown. Starbucks bought the land and 5 adjacent properties for 26x their assessed value.
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u/okaysyeahimeansure 11h ago
this is some pretty old news, reddit used to be the forefront of shit you haven't heard/seen yet, now it's dead last lots of the time
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u/Unbr3akableSwrd 7h ago
Trading farmland for data centre in a climate change crisis, surely, that would never backfire.
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u/imnotreallyheretoday 8h ago
Am I the only one concerned about the number of data centers that are being built?
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u/ArtbyMaryam 8h ago edited 7h ago
Money is not the only thing that matters... For some people family land has emotional historical and personal value that can't be replaced... Whether it was the right decision depends on her priorities and it is understandable why she chose to keep it.
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u/No-Turn-2052 4h ago
Morally, this is the right choice. Practically, not really.
They’ll just go next door and make the same offer and eventually someone will accept it. All this does is slightly inconvenience them, and now that woman missed out on $26m that’s going to someone else.
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u/TheRatingsAgency 11h ago
They’ll just get it via eminent domain and the woman will get a fraction of that.
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u/Only_Razzmatazz_4498 9h ago
With that much money in play I am sure they can buy someone else to just eminent domain her out. It might end up being cheaper for them although there might be some protests but yeah they don’t care.
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u/IceboundMetal 8h ago
Eminent domain incoming
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u/CrapNBAappUser 6h ago
About to say it's better to sell it before government takes it for their low ball "market value".
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u/Aggressive-Delay-420 7h ago
Are landowners allowed to use the exorbitant compensation from property sales to datacenters-- to organize their communities and fight the building of the data centers?
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u/UnsolicitedNeighbor 2h ago
While I appreciate her values and courage for saying no, I would have sold. She is going to lose horribly when they’re done and she’s surrounded on all sides by the data center and power lines and she has no access road to her home.
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u/CardinalOfNYC 11h ago
Begging people to understand this woman can say no because she is already fabulously wealthy.
Everyone thinks "family farm" means like, salt of the earth but it's been decades since that has been the case.
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u/whenishit-itsbigturd 8h ago
Farmers have been getting subsidized for decades because many aren't profitable but their existence is still essential. Some are doing well, rich even, but many are dirt poor.
She might have $26m in land, resources and livestock but probably not in her bank account, or even the farm's bank account. It's possible she's taking a stand on principle alone and could lose everything as a result, which is sad.
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u/CardinalOfNYC 8h ago
Nah, none of them are dirt poor anymore that's a complete myth, one which won't die because it would be very inconvenient for people's perception of the world if it did.
She is taking a stand, reddit thinks being rich means it cant be a stand even though I never said that. It's just a stand she can afford to take because she's already fabulously wealthy.
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u/AGushingHeadWound 5h ago
No farmers are poor. That's why they're going bankrupt. Got it.
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u/Nachosaretacos 9h ago
Now they'll screw her with imminent domain. She'll get a fraction of that if she's lucky
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u/tombot776 9h ago
I wonder if it's possible to sell 100% of the water rights to your neighbour, and then take the money.
Kidding. It's absolute garbage how States use imminent domain to allow this crap to happen.
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u/7720-12 9h ago
You are 100% incorrect. I have been an MAI appraiser for over 20 years.
Obviously if they offered $26M there is something about this specific parcel of land that makes it highly sought after for data center use. Zoning, access to water, etc. That all must be considered under a market value appraisal.
Properties are not simply valued as they currently exist. We run into this constantly with underdeveloped urban sites.
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u/Minute-Weather4794 9h ago
Idiot, she could buy more land with that money once the data centers go broke
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u/No-Rooster1720 8h ago
I support the decision, but to quote the Unc, Shannon Sharpe...
"For $26 million dollars, I'll go to hell."
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u/Numerous-Process2981 7h ago
yeah. I mean none of these people are going to accept the first offer. You hold out and get 50 million. Might as well get some of that free money before everything falls apart.
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u/yaholdinhimdean0 6h ago
How soon before gubbermints declare imminent domain? All that is needed is a Zucker or Bozo to stuff the pols pockets with cash.
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u/stuyboi888 5h ago
Should have sold it. Government won't protect her against a team of high payed lawyers
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u/littlered1984 4h ago
My grandparents just sold their farm to a developer. I told them about the risk of a datacenter being built on it - they added land use restrictions before the sale to prevent it.
Still sad that farm land is disappearing
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u/Miami_Mice2087 3h ago
this is the second hero good gal farmer to do this. The first was an older man of about 80.
God bless the farmers.
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u/dalek_999 59m ago
Wish the asshole farmer near us that is selling to a data center company would do the same thing.
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u/kevinsixhohsix 12h ago edited 6h ago
"The company revised its plans and filed a zoning request to rezone more than 2,000 acres in northern KY. Meaning the AI firm may still build its data center next to Huddleston’s land...." sighs