An 86-year-old Pennsylvania farmer refused to turn his land into an AI data center

Today, 18:21

Mervin Raudabaugh was offered over $15 million to build a massive data center on his fields. But he refused to destroy the farms he'd been farming for over 60 years.

Instead, he sold the development rights to a conservation fund for about $2 million—a significantly smaller sum, but the land would remain farmland forever.

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