Data center builders thought farmers would willingly sell land, learn otherwise
Ars Technica AI February 23, 2026

It seems that tech giants eyeing rural zones for data center development have underestimated how attached American farmers have grown to their lands in the decades they've been nurturing them. Across the country, several farmers have firmly rejected eye-popping offers—sometimes in the tens of millio
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