Million-dollar offer rejected for AI data center

A Kentucky landowner has declined a $26 million offer from an unspecified "major artificial intelligence company". The company intended to build a data center on her agricultural property.

The news highlights the growing demand for space to host high-performance computing infrastructure, necessary for training and inference of artificial intelligence models. The concentration of data centers in specific areas can lead to competition for land and unexpected real estate valuations.

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