A Data Center Offered $26 Million for Her Land. She Said No.

数据中心出价2600万美元购买她的土地,她却拒绝了。

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2026-09-10

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Delsia Bare and her mother, Ida Huddleston, rejected $26 million dollars for their Kentucky farmland from the builder of an AI data center. Their stance has made them folk heroes across the country but has also divided their town. WSJ’s Erich Schwartzel spent a few days with the mother and daughter to better understand their resistance. Further Listening: - The Vanishing of an Anti-AI Activist - A Data Center Revolt in Missouri Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Hey everyone, it's Jess.

  • Our colleague Eric Schwartzel is here to guest host today's episode.

  • Here it is.

  • Not the one up here at the top, the one down there.

  • You got four-wheel drive.

  • All right, off-roading here today, Delcia.

  • I told you it's gonna get rough and ready.

  • All right, let's give it a go.

  • I'm behind the wheel of a beat-up Jeep driving the backwoods of Maysville, Kentucky.

  • Riding co-pilot and guiding me is a woman named Delcia Baer.

  • Just don't cross the bridge that's in front of us.

  • Delcia is nearly blind from diabetes,

  • but she's able to direct us using only the map in her head and the feel of the road beneath us.

  • We're in exactly where you say we are.

  • Well, that means I've measured off of my head all these years.

  • She's lived here on her family's land for her entire life.

  • Like I said, hold over to the right.

  • Hold on to something if you're in the back.

  • You need to put a little speed to it.

  • Okay.