For generations, Ida Huddleston and her household have owned a farm in northern Kentucky. They usually’ve turned down a minimum of one multimillion-dollar supply to protect it.

Final yr, a “main synthetic intelligence firm” provided them $26 million to promote a part of their farm for a proposed knowledge middle, according to a recent report from WKRC. Huddleston and her household declined, saying they didn’t desire a knowledge middle constructed close to them or on any of their 1,200 acres of farmland exterior Maysville, Kentucky.

“They name us previous silly farmers, you understand, however we’re not,” Huddleston, who’s 82, advised Native 12 WKRC. “We all know each time our meals is disappearing, our lands are disappearing, and we don’t have any water — and that poison. Nicely, we all know we’ve had it,” apparently referring to latest water shortages and ground poisoning that’s been widely reported in land near data centers.

In an interview with the information station, Huddleston stated she doubted the information middle would deliver jobs or financial development to Mason County. “It’s a rip-off,” she stated.

The corporate, which WKRC didn’t title, revised its plans and filed a zoning request to rezone greater than 2,000 acres in northern Kentucky, in response to the report — which means the AI agency should construct its knowledge middle subsequent to Huddleston’s land.