NEPA Landowners Line Up to Become AI Millionaires by Selling Land

Three months ago (March 2026), MDN reported on a northeastern Pennsylvania landowner from Luzerne County who sold his farm to an AI data center project and overnight became a multimillionaire (see NEPA Landowner Sells Small Farm to Data Center for $17.8 Million). Other landowners in the same township (Salem) have banded together, some 194 landowners, and are on the cusp of doing the same thing for a new/different AI data center project that wants to build in the township. In our research for the March story, we found landowners being offered $60,000 to $175,000 *per acre* to sell. This new deal that the 194 landowners are contemplating blows that out of the water! Chump change.

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