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Farmers field offers above $120,000 an acre

development2026-02-23

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US farmers are receiving offers exceeding $120,000 per acre from data center developers, while OpenAI plans to spend $600 billion on compute by 2030.

Reported metric: $120,000/acre / $600B

Reporting date: 2026-02-23 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to February 23, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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OpenAI

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OpenAI anchors a gigawatt datacenter in India as Meta funds politicians

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Farmers field offers above $120,000 an acre
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-02-23
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-02-23-farmland-at-120000-an-acre
Claim: US farmers are receiving offers exceeding $120,000 per acre from data center developers, while OpenAI plans to spend $600 billion on compute by 2030.
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- Welcome to February 23, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-february-23-2026
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