Kentucky family turns down $26M offer to buy their farmland for AI data center
News Clip0:59WJACTV·KY·3/27/2026
A Kentucky family, Ida Huddleston and Delsia Bare, declined a $26 million offer from an unnamed AI company. The company sought to purchase approximately half of their farmland to develop a new data center, but the family chose not to sell their land.
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A Kentucky family told WKRC that they turned down a reported $26M offer to sell part of their family farmland to an unnamed AI company. Ida Huddleston and her daughter Delsia Bare say the company offered to purchase roughly half their land to turn it into a data center.