Amid the AI infrastructure boom, major tech companies are flocking to rural America in search of large tracts of land with ample access to the power grid, but this expansion is facing opposition from local communities. It is reported that a major AI company once offered $26 million to acquire about half of a 1,200-acre farm in Mason County, Kentucky, at a price ten times the local land value. However, the landowners, the Huddleston family, rejected the substantial sum, choosing instead to protect this fertile farmland passed down through generations.