“Some people don’t value money as much as we and instead find value in thing beyond our comprehension. We are trully shocked with this discovery.” - AI CEOs.

They probably aren’t offering all that much money, current prices aside, property could be worth a lot more. I imagine they are trying to lowball these farmers, and will try to get the government to use eminent domain to get it even cheaper, and as a threat to force them to sell cheap.

My family has a ~7 acre tract in a rural area. Some random shell company keeps offering more and more even tho it isn’t for sale. Their last offer was over 5X the overall state average and probably 20X what it is actually worth (no utilities, has to be hiked to, 90% rocks so not useful for farming). Local rumors say they are planning to build data centers in that area; So I suspect that’s why.

Don’t sell. Good luck. The land is worth more than current prices, without that land we are at the mercy of owners to rent from us too. Nothing is more important than owning land in the future here I’m afraid. But you need to pay property taxes too, and need vehicles to get into town from the country as well. (I’m trying to become a farmer of sorts right now, 10 acres.)

Absolutely wouldn’t sell. It’s pretty much an heirloom at this point. And who knows, one day I might want to build a cozy little cabin out amongst the data centers.