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As AI infrastructure demands explode, rural communities are increasingly resisting billion-dollar data center deals despite lucrative offers.

As AI infrastructure demands explode, rural communities are increasingly resisting billion-dollar data center deals despite lucrative offers.

3 Key Points

  1. An 82-year-old Kentucky woman rejected a $26 million offer from an AI company seeking to build a data center on her land

  2. The company is attempting to rezone 2,000 acres nearby despite the landowner's refusal

  3. Growing tension emerging between AI companies' infrastructure expansion needs and real-world community resistance

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