Jezebel | '$26 Million Doesn’t Mean a Thing’: Farmer (Hero?) Who Rejected Data Center Buyout by Claire Guinan

As small towns across the country are being swallowed up by AI data centers, these farmers in northern Kentucky are refusing to let their family’s land fall into the hands of these loser, virgin, money-hungry, AI big shots.

For the past year, an unnamed Fortune 100 AI company has been making offers to cattle farmers Ida Huddleston and her daughter, Delsia, to buy a portion of their 1,200-acre property for $26 million to develop a data center. The women have continuously rejected the offers, saying, “$26 million doesn’t mean a thing.” Agreed. Millions of dollars is one thing, but denying AI big shots the pleasure of thinking they can buy up our lives? That’s priceless.

“My grandfather and great-grandfather and a whole bunch of family have all lived here for years, paid taxes on it, fed a nation off of it,” she told Cincinnati’s Local 12. “Even raised wheat through the Depression and kept bread lines up in the United States of America when people didn’t have anything else.”

The family is one of dozens of landowners in the area being bought out of their farmland to make way for resource-hungry data centers. These companies are specifically targeting the Midwest for its cooler temperatures and proximity to the Great Lakes, a resource needed for cooling. Because who cares about our country’s natural wonders? Or our world’s diminishing water supply? However much water Trump needs to power his AI slop, he gets.

Read more: https://www.jezebel.com/26-million-doesnt-mean-a-thing-says-farmer-who-denies-ai-land-buying

#idahuddleston #fortune100 #aicompany #greatlakes #midwest

Adnkronos - ultimoratop: Usa, una famiglia rifiuta 26 milioni di dollari da un'azienda IA: "La nostra fattoria non diventerà un data center"

(Adnkronos) - La storia l'ottantaduenne Ida Huddleston e della sua famiglia: "Restiamo, teniamo ciò che abbiamo e continuiamo a sfamare la nazione"

Uses Family Rejects $26 Million Offer from AI Company: “Our Farm Won’t Become a Data Center”

(Adnkronos) - The story of the eighty-two-year-old Ida Huddleston and her family: “Let’s stay, hold what we have, and continue to feed the nation.”

#AICompany #IdaHuddleston

https://www.adnkronos.com/internazionale/esteri/kentucky-fattoria-26-milioni_4Bqtp8QqsxZd1fXxZG17dh

I don't know who needs to know, but:

#Ingram lets #Authors opt out of selling their #books to AI companies:

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/99453-ingram-offers-to-not-sell-books-to-ai-companies.html

Opt-out form: https://www.ingramcontent.com/page/ai-opt-out

This is only for #print books since AI companies are now buying print books to scan to legally use the content for #LLM training under "fair use."

#AI #AICompany #Publishers #Copyright #OptOut

Silent AI Breakthroughs Worry Experts - Marius Hobbhahn on 80000 Hours

#powerful #aicompany

Disney and OpenAI Strike Licensing Deal for Sora, ChatGPT

Darth Vader is coming to ChatGPT and OpenAI’s Sora AI video app. The House of Mouse and OpenAI…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #aicompany #aipioneer #CA #Canada #character #ChatGPT #company #deal #Disney #OpenAI #people #platform #sora #soraaivideoapp #starwars #thursdayannouncement #user
https://www.newsbeep.com/303350/

Vertal cung cấp dịch vụ gán nhãn & chú thích dữ liệu AI/ML: nhanh, chính xác, giá rẻ! ⚡ 10 chuyên gia được đào tạo, mở rộng dự án lớn. Đảm bảo độ chính xác và tốc độ cho mô hình AI. Phù hợp công ty AI, lab nghiên cứu & startup. #dulieuganlabel #AI #MachineLearning #DichvuAnnotate #DataLabeling #DichvuAI #AICompany

https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1oijsgk/data_labeling_annotation_services_fast_accurate/