{"id":3488700,"date":"2026-03-24T22:22:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/kentucky-woman-declines-26m-proposal-to-convert-her-farm-into-a-data-center\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T22:22:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T22:22:57","slug":"kentucky-woman-declines-26m-proposal-to-convert-her-farm-into-a-data-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/kentucky-woman-declines-26m-proposal-to-convert-her-farm-into-a-data-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky woman declines $26M proposal to convert her farm into a data center"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/kentucky-woman-declines-26m-proposal-to-convert-her-farm-into-a-data-center.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For many years, Ida Huddleston and her family have maintained a farm in northern Kentucky, turning down at least one multimillion-dollar proposal to keep it intact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a recent WKRC report, a \u201csignificant artificial intelligence corporation\u201d proposed $26 million for a portion of their farm to establish a planned data center. Huddleston and her family rejected the offer, expressing their disinterest in having a data center constructed nearby or on any of their 1,200 acres of farmland located outside Maysville, Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey label us as foolish old farmers, but that\u2019s not who we are,\u201d Huddleston, at 82 years old, stated to Local 12 WKRC. \u201cWe recognize when our food sources are vanishing, our lands are vanishing, and we lack sufficient water \u2014 and that poison. Well, we\u2019re aware of what we\u2019ve been encountering,\u201d seemingly referencing recent reports of water shortages and soil contamination near data center sites.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n[embedded content]\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview with the news outlet, Huddleston expressed her skepticism that the data center would result in job creation or economic development for Mason County. \u201cIt\u2019s a fraud,\u201d she claimed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The unnamed company, as noted by WKRC, has amended its plans and submitted a zoning application to rezone over 2,000 acres in northern Kentucky, suggesting that the AI corporation may still proceed with plans to construct its data center adjacent to Huddleston\u2019s property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/kentucky-woman-declines-26m-proposal-to-convert-her-farm-into-a-data-center.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For many years, Ida Huddleston and her family have maintained a farm in northern Kentucky, turning down at least one multimillion-dollar proposal to keep it intact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a recent WKRC report, a \u201csignificant artificial intelligence corporation\u201d proposed $26 million for a portion of their farm to establish a planned data center. Huddleston and her family rejected the offer, expressing their disinterest in having a data center constructed nearby or on any of their 1,200 acres of farmland located outside Maysville, Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey label us as foolish old farmers, but that\u2019s not who we are,\u201d Huddleston, at 82 years old, stated to Local 12 WKRC. \u201cWe recognize when our food sources are vanishing, our lands are vanishing, and we lack sufficient water \u2014 and that poison. Well, we\u2019re aware of what we\u2019ve been encountering,\u201d seemingly referencing recent reports of water shortages and soil contamination near data center sites.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n[embedded content]\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview with the news outlet, Huddleston expressed her skepticism that the data center would result in job creation or economic development for Mason County. \u201cIt\u2019s a fraud,\u201d she claimed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The unnamed company, as noted by WKRC, has amended its plans and submitted a zoning application to rezone over 2,000 acres in northern Kentucky, suggesting that the AI corporation may still proceed with plans to construct its data center adjacent to Huddleston\u2019s property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3488701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3488700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3488700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3488701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3488700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3488700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3488700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}