Kentucky landowner refuses $8 million offer to preserve family land from potential data center

News Clip2:42LOCAL 12·KY·12/12/2025

A landowner in Kentucky is refusing an $8 million offer to preserve their family land from a potential data center development by one of the world's largest artificial intelligence companies. This is generating resistance in the local community.

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More jobs may be on the way to one Tri-State community—that's if the residents there want them. One of the world’s largest artificial intelligence companies is aiming to build another data center. But there’s resistance—including a man who is turning down millions to keep his land: https://tinyurl.com/mve4k43h _______________ Stay up to date with our social media: WKRC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WKRCTV/ WKRC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Local12 WKRC on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/local12wkrc/?hl=en WKRC on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@local12wkrc?lang=en Subscribe to WKRC on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC673WfesrYoCgG9VsekGlEQ/?sub_confirmation=1 For more information, visit https://www.local12.com/ Download the WKRC News app: https://local12.com/station/news-app Download the WKRC Weather app: https://local12.com/weather/weather-app Have a news tip? Send it directly to us: Email us: local12@local12.com Call the Newsroom: 513.421.6872 WKRC is an OH based station and a CBS Television affiliate owned and operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. is one of the largest and most diversified television broadcasting companies in the country today. #WKRC #LOCAL12 #cincinnati #news #cincinnatinews This video and all Sinclair Broadcast Group content archives of local news and sports coverage are available for your use. For more information contact us at contentsales@sbgtv.com