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A 75-year-old Kentucky farmer rejected $8 million for his 250-acre farm — more than four times what land sells for in his county. The data-centre developers came back with a new proposition: name your price. His answer was that there isn't one.
1+ hour, 13+ min ago (576+ words) One man's refusal to sell is exposing the hidden machinery behind Big Tech's land grab in rural America. By Science Blog Editorial Team · Edited by Brendan Brown Published September 3, 2026 · How we edit The offers started arriving in Mason County, Kentucky,…...
An 86-year-old Pennsylvania farmer rejected roughly $15.7 million — $60,000 per acre — from data-centre developers for his 261 acres. Instead, he accepted $1.9 million for the development rights, permanently preserving the land for farming.
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (1005+ words) A Pennsylvania farmer kept his land and sold permanent development rights for $1.9 million after rejecting a reported $60,000-per-acre data-centre offer. By The Long View · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published August 30, 2026 · How we edit An 86-year-old Pennsylvania farmer looked at a…...
At Nevada's 1.8-million-panel Gemini solar farm, a rare desert milkvetch produced eight times more flowers and ten times more fruit than plants outside, because the panel rows held rain in the soil long after the same Mojave sun had pulled it from open ground
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (220+ words) The solar panels meant to harness the desert's sun are inadvertently nurturing one of its rarest plants, raising questions about whether industrial sprawl might sometimes create unexpected refuges. By Science Blog Editorial Team Published August 30, 2026 · How we edit The follow-up…...
Add up every sparrow, crow, eagle, penguin and owl left in the wild, and the world's farmed chickens alone still outweigh them two to three times over
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (816+ words) One farmed animal now weighs more than every wild bird on Earth put together. Not more numerous, though chickens run that race close too. Published August 29, 2026 · How we edit One farmed animal now weighs more than every wild bird on…...
The Aztecs built an agricultural system capable of producing repeated harvests without synthetic fertilizer, feeding a city of hundreds of thousands from artificial islands constructed in a lake
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (738+ words) At its height, Tenochtitlan was one of the largest cities on Earth. It stood in a lake, had no tractors, synthetic nitrogen or refrigerated supply chains, yet its markets received a steady flow of maize, beans, squash, chillies, tomatoes, greens…...