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Delsia Bare and her mother, Ida Huddleston, agreed to sell their Kentucky farmland to an unnamed company for $26.48 million. Then they found out it was for a 2.2-gigawatt AI data center.<\/p>\n
That was the deal breaker, according to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>. Bare said she believes AI could be \u201cthe destruction of the human race\u201d and sees staying on her land as a biblical duty. Huddleston was put off by the NDA clause of the contract and simply didn\u2019t want to leave the routine of her daily life. \u201cEven if I had $26 million, I\u2019d want to sit here in my chair, and have my coffee and eat my food where I always do,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Bare, 54, is legally nearly blind from diabetes. Huddleston is 83 and walks with a cane. \u201cOne of us is blind and the other\u2019s cripple,\u201d Huddleston said. They call themselves \u201ccountry hicks\u201d and have become polarizing figures in the pushback against AI\u2019s expansion into small towns.<\/p>\n Their refusal to take the deal has split their hometown of Maysville, population 8,700. Neighbors have sued neighbors. Facebook groups have turned hostile. The company, later identified through public records as likely Meta,<\/a> has offered the town $110 million in land deals, plus funding for emergency services and water infrastructure. A Meta spokesman said no decision has been made.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Delsia Bare and her mother, Ida Huddleston, agreed to sell their Kentucky farmland to an unnamed company for $26.48 million. Then they found out it was for a 2.2-gigawatt AI data center.<\/p>\n That was the deal breaker, according to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>. Bare said she believes AI could be \u201cthe destruction of the human race\u201d and sees staying on her land as a biblical duty. Huddleston was put off by the NDA clause of the contract and simply didn\u2019t want to leave the routine of her daily life. \u201cEven if I had $26 million, I\u2019d want to sit here in my chair, and have my coffee and eat my food where I always do,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Bare, 54, is legally nearly blind from diabetes. Huddleston is 83 and walks with a cane. \u201cOne of us is blind and the other\u2019s cripple,\u201d Huddleston said. They call themselves \u201ccountry hicks\u201d and have become polarizing figures in the pushback against AI\u2019s expansion into small towns.<\/p>\n Their refusal to take the deal has split their hometown of Maysville, population 8,700. Neighbors have sued neighbors. Facebook groups have turned hostile. The company, later identified through public records as likely Meta,<\/a> has offered the town $110 million in land deals, plus funding for emergency services and water infrastructure. A Meta spokesman said no decision has been made.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n