{"id":1655961,"date":"2026-08-07T10:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4hGVEtuKbed7FLbD2LB87g"},"modified":"2026-08-07T10:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:25:11","slug":"they-call-us-old-stupid-farmers-you-know-but-were-not-family-declines-26-million-offer-to-convert-their-farmland-into-an-ai-data-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/they-call-us-old-stupid-farmers-you-know-but-were-not-family-declines-26-million-offer-to-convert-their-farmland-into-an-ai-data-center\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;They call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we\u2019re not&#8217;: Family declines $26 million offer to convert their farmland into an AI data center"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>If one thing is true about AI, it&#8217;s that there&#8217;s a lot of money in it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/graphics-cards\/nvidia-is-the-worlds-first-usd5-trillion-company-but-ceo-jensen-huangs-nifty-narrative-about-accelerated-computing-and-the-remarkable-foresight-that-led-to-todays-ai-revolution-doesnt-quite-add-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nvidia became the first $5 trillion company<\/a> because of its role in the explosion of AI data centers, and OpenAI has been rounding up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/ai\/openai-finalises-deal-for-usd40-billion-in-investments-raising-company-value-up-to-usd300-billion-but-theres-a-catch-to-receive-it-all\/\" target=\"_blank\">tens of billions in investments<\/a>. So you&#8217;d think AI companies could buy pretty much whatever they want\u2014but one farming family in Northern Kentucky showed that&#8217;s not the case by turning down a $26 million bid. <\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/local12.com\/news\/local\/northern-kentucky-family-declines-26-million-bid-data-center-plans-advance-maysville-ai-tech-technology-construction-farm-farmland-property-deal-purchase-sell-google-meta-amazon-mason-county-market-value-cincinnati\" target=\"_blank\">WKRC-TV Local 12<\/a>, Ida Huddleston was offered the sum for half of her 1,200-acre farmland this year, which an unnamed company would turn into an AI data center. Huddleston&#8217;s daughter, Delsia Bare, reportedly said she would &#8220;stay and hold and feed a nation&#8221; and that &#8220;$26 million doesn&#8217;t mean anything.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>AI data centers have become an ethical and ideological battleground, with Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceXAI only this week agreeing to take down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/ai\/spacexai-pats-itself-on-the-back-for-removing-temporary-turbines-in-memphis-under-agreed-order-over-the-next-year-we-care-deeply-about-being-good-neighbors\/\" target=\"_blank\">69 temporary methane turbines in Memphis over the next year<\/a> in reaction to resident concerns over local disruption. <\/p>\n<div style=\"min-height: 250px;\">\n<div class=\"kwizly-quiz kwizly-XZKx1e\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <script src=\"https:\/\/kwizly.com\/embed\/XZKx1e.js\" async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In this case, Bare claims there&#8217;s history to the site that the data center company would be ignoring. She told Local 12, \u201cMy 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.&#8221; She continues, \u201c[They] even raised wheat through the Depression and kept bread lines up in the United States of America when people didn\u2019t have anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bare claims to be among &#8220;dozens of landowners&#8221; approached by the anonymous buyer, who reportedly represents a major AI company. Notably, Local 12 claims that the land where Bare lives is worth around $6,000 per acre, which makes the offer around ten times the actual value.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"Xe9yiU39M4NCBxmPncCcP9\" name=\"data-center-stock.jpg\" alt=\"A generic data center\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/they-call-us-old-stupid-farmers-you-know-but-were-not-family-declines-26-million-offer-to-convert-their-farmland-into-an-ai-data-center.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Pixabay &#8211; Akela999)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Huddleston tells Local 12, \u201cThey call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we\u2019re not. We know whenever our food is disappearing, our lands are disappearing, and we don\u2019t have any water\u2014and that poison. Well, we know we\u2019ve had it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Huddleston is also sceptical of claims of economic growth as a result of the AI data center. \u201cI say they\u2019re a liar, and the truth isn\u2019t in them. That\u2019s what I say. It\u2019s a scam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Data center pushback has been a common theme of the growth of AI, with concerns of both an environmental and ethical nature being front and centre. And AI companies have a lot of money to throw around. <\/p>\n<p>Even if you own a lot of land, $26 million must be a life-changing amount of money to anyone but the richest of the rich; it would even be enough to buy some of the RAM that AI data centers have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/memory\/ram-and-storage-is-ridiculously-expensive-right-now-because-of-drumroll-ai-of-course-and-theres-little-reason-to-think-prices-will-drop-any-time-soon\/\" target=\"_blank\">gleefully sucking up<\/a> over the last few years. Just a thought.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/ai\/they-call-us-old-stupid-farmers-you-know-but-were-not-family-declines-usd26-million-offer-to-convert-their-farmland-into-an-ai-data-center\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If one thing is true about AI, it&#8217;s that there&#8217;s a lot of money in it. Nvidia became the first $5 trillion company because of its role in the explosion of AI data centers, and OpenAI has been rounding up tens of billions in investments. So you&#8217;d think AI companies could buy pretty much whatever they want\u2014but one farming family in Northern Kentucky showed that&#8217;s not the case by turning down a $26 million bid. As reported by WKRC-TV Local 12, Ida Huddleston was offered the sum for half of her 1,200-acre farmland this year, which an unnamed company would turn into an AI data center. Huddleston&#8217;s daughter, Delsia Bare, reportedly said she would &#8220;stay and hold and feed a nation&#8221; and that &#8220;$26 million&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/they-call-us-old-stupid-farmers-you-know-but-were-not-family-declines-26-million-offer-to-convert-their-farmland-into-an-ai-data-center\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1655962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[1997,1622],"class_list":["post-1655961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-ai","tag-software"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;They call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we\u2019re not&#039;: Family declines $26 million offer to convert their farmland into an AI data center | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If one thing is true about AI, it&#039;s that there&#039;s a lot of money in it. 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