Kentucky family says it turned down $26M from AI giant to keep farmland that 'fed a nation'

A northern Kentucky woman says she declined a $26 million offer for a partial sale of her farmland that has been in her family for generations to build a data center.

Ida Huddleston and her family own about 1,200 acres of farmland outside Maysville, Kentucky. In April, an unnamed Fortune 100 artificial intelligence company reached out to them to purchase approximately half of the land.

Huddleston's daughter, Delsia Bare, said the big offer is meaningless. "Stay and hold and feed a nation," she told Local 12 news...