US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land: ‘I’m not for sale’

Tech companies are offering farmers tens of millions for land to build datacenters, likely for AI infrastructure, raising concerns about rural displacement, concentration of AI power in corporate hands, and the erosion of agricultural communities. The secretive nature of these deals (requiring NDAs) and massive financial pressure on farming families highlights how AI's infrastructure demands are reshaping land use and rural life.