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KY Women Hailed as America Heroes for Refusing to Sell Ancestral Farm

&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Money can’t buy everyone&comma; even in today’s America where seemingly everyone and everything has a price tag&period; Hence&comma; an all-American family of a mother and daughter in Kentucky declined millions of dollars in a price offer for their ancestral farmland&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">AGDaily&period;com &lpar;March 24&rpar; featured the story of two patriotic American women – the 82-year-old Ida Huddleston and her daughter Delsia Bare – who turned down a &dollar;26 million offer for their 1200-acre farm near Maysville in Northern Kentucky&period; Bare’s interview clip wherein she is seen telling CBS affiliate WKRC-TV that she’d rather feed the nation than making millions for herself went viral on X and won millions of American hearts&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class&equals;"wp-block-embed&lowbar;&lowbar;wrapper">&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"550" data-dnt&equals;"true"><p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">🚨BREAKING&colon; Kentucky family rejects a &dollar;26 million offer to turn their farmland into a data center&comma; roughly 10x the area’s going rate&period;<br><br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If it’s my way&comma; I’ll stay and hold and feed a nation&period; 26 million doesn’t mean anything&period;”<br> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;YZFinC3PZM">pic&period;twitter&period;com&sol;YZFinC3PZM<&sol;a><&sol;p>&mdash&semi; Jack &lpar;&commat;jackunheard&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;jackunheard&sol;status&sol;2036249996417233388&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">March 24&comma; 2026<&sol;a><&sol;blockquote><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script>&NewLine;<&sol;div><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The heroic choice of these women to continue growing food for the nation instead of bagging millions of dollars and living in luxury somewhere comes at a time when urbanization is gobbling up precious farmland across the country and various industries are expanding at the expense of America’s share of nature&period; In recent years&comma; the expansion of the tech industry for creating data centers to develop advanced AI-run projects has caused widespread concern among conservatives&period; The offer to buy the Huddleston- Bare farm was also made by an unnamed tech company that wanted to build a large data center on the land&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The uplifting part of this story for American patriots lies in multiple reports cited in the story of similar offers rejected by farmland owners across the country&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><em>Across the country&comma; similar conflicts are emerging&period;&nbsp&semi;Yahoo Finance&comma; citing Moneywise&comma; reported that farming families are rejecting multimillion-dollar buyout offers from tech companies scrambling to build sprawling AI data centers on rural land&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">In February this year&comma; <em>Farm Progress Daily<&sol;em> published an article &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Data centers’ appetite for farmland hard to suppress&comma;” briefly discussing some of the many problems associated with the construction of AI data centers in rural areas&period; The article wrote&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><em>Some advocates warn that data centers could also impact agricultural irrigation&period; Given how much work data centers do at any given minute&comma; their servers generate an immense amount of heat&period; Water is used for cooling&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">For an example of such AI expansion that is a threat to American farmland&comma; the article cited Intel’s massive &dollar;28 billion manufacturing plant that is under construction in rural Ohio&period; The Biden administration put more than &dollar;50 billion for such expansion of the tech industry and the Trump administration has continued this push with a focus on AI advancement&period; Last summer&comma; the Trump administration unveiled its National Farm Security Action Plan to prevent individuals and businesses from China and other &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;foreign adversaries” from buying American farmland&period; But the threat of big tech from America and its allies consuming the agricultural land roams free on American soil&period; The only thing standing its way is the conscience of patriotic men and women&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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