‘Country hick’ Kentucky farmers reject AI company’s $26M offer to build data centers on land
A couple of self-described “country hick” farmers blasted an AI company’s plan to build a data center on their Kentucky property after rejecting a whopping multimillion-dollar sum for their humble farmland. Delsia Bare and her mother Ida Huddleston initially agreed to sell their plots in Maysville for a combined total of $26.4 million when initially approached by representatives of an unknown AI company, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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A couple of self-described “country hick” farmers blasted an AI company’s plan to build a data center on their Kentucky property after rejecting a whopping multimillion-dollar sum for their humble farmland. Delsia Bare and her mother Ida Huddleston initially agreed to sell their plots in Maysville for a combined total of $26.4 million when initially approached by representatives of an unknown AI company, the Wall Street Journal reported. But when the mother-daughter duo, a couple of self-described “country hicks,” learned that the company planned to build data centers on the land to power artificial intelligence bots, they swiftly backed out. “Kick rocks and don’t come back,” Bare told the reps after she and her mom successfully canned the deal.
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- A couple of self-described “country hick” farmers blasted an AI company’s plan to build a data center on their Kentucky property after rejecting a whopping multimillion-dollar sum for their humble farmland. Delsia Bare and her mother Ida Huddleston initially agreed to sell their plots in Maysville for a combined total of $26.4 million when initially approached by representatives of an unknown AI company, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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‘Country hick’ Kentucky farmers reject AI company’s $26M offer to build data centers on land
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