Jul 15, 2026
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9 min read
Pennsylvania Farmers Are Selling Dirt for 35x Its Value — and the AI Industry Thinks That's Cheap
Blackstone's QTS paid 96 Pennsylvania farming families an average of $330,000 per acre — 35 times the state's agricultural land value — in a $586 million acquisition for a nuclear-adjacent AI data center campus. The sellers think they won. The math on what they gave up is more complicated.
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Aby Varghese