MAYSVILLE, Ky.—A man representing an undisclosed company stepped on 82-year-old Ida Huddleston’s farmhouse porch last year and made an offer he seemed confident she would not refuse.
Huddleston and her daughter, Delsia Bare, were offered $26 million for around 1,000 acres of the farmland that has been in the family since the 19th century, for the development of a hyperscale data center just outside of Maysville in northern Kentucky.
Everyone has a price, or so the man thought, Bare imagines.
“But not this family,” she said.
“This land is priceless. I want to pass down everything you see here to the next generation. God told me to keep this for as long as I’m here, and then pass it on to the next generation,” Huddleston told The Epoch Times from her front porch on a sunny day in early April….
The Farmers Who Declined $26 Million to Sell Land for Data Center
