A Data Center Offered $26 Million for Her Land. She Said No.
A nearly blind Kentucky farmer, Delsia Bare, refuses a $26 million offer to sell her family land to make way for a massive AI-powered data center, framing her resistance as both a spiritual and ancestral duty. Her story reveals a deep rural divide over technological progress, environmenta
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