A Kentucky family has filed a lawsuit to safeguard its ancestral farm from development for an artificial intelligence data center.
A mother and her daughter are standing firm against selling their 200 year old family farm in Kentucky to data center developers. They are now battling the project through the courts. Ida Huddleston and her daughter Delsia Bare reside on a 1200 acre farm in Maysville that has belonged to their family for more than two centuries.
To them the land represents far more than mere property. Generations have raised livestock cultivated crops constructed homes and laid loved ones to rest on this soil. Bare recalls spending her childhood riding horses along the fences while Huddleston has called the farm home since she was 17 years old.
When real estate agents started purchasing land for a planned 2000 acre artificial intelligence data center Huddleston and Bare initially agreed to sell a portion of their holdings. Yet the choice soon proved too difficult to bear.
I do not want to leave my home. I do not want to leave my flower beds Huddleston told her daughter.
Bare acted swiftly to void the agreement and felt relieved when an attorney verified that the developers could not compel the sale. The family has since joined other local residents in a legal challenge against the project.
The proposed data center would demand up to 2.2 gigawatts of electricity plus extensive new infrastructure for power water sewer roads and fiber optics. Backers argue that the unnamed Fortune 100 company would fund these improvements and generate jobs along with increased tax revenue for the region.
Opponents however worry that the development could overburden local water and power resources convert productive farmland into industrial zones and fundamentally alter the rural character of the community. Some neighboring residents have already faced displacement. Twenty eight people in a mobile home park received 90 day eviction notices after sections of the land were purchased for the project.
An initial lawsuit was dismissed but the family and other members of the group We Are Mason County submitted a new complaint in June. The development continues to advance and a court approved rezoning in May.
Huddleston and Bare remain resolute in their decision not to leave. Money means nothing if you lack food water and the ability to breathe Huddleston stated. And they are not making any more land.
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