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The AI data center buildout has reached rural land markets, driving property prices higher and dividing farmers and property owners between those selling into the demand and those organizing to resist.
The land rush is generating a backlash that now tracks the pace of the buildout itself.
The constraint is basic: data centers are land-intensive, and rural areas offer large acreage at costs well below industrial or suburban alternatives.
That arithmetic has directed development into agricultural regions, creating competition for specific parcels that pushes prices past what farming alone can support.
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