Van Trump: Midwest farmland is being rapidly bought for data centers
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Kevin Van Trump discusses alternative non-agricultural land utilities and tech infrastructure developments acquiring US farmland.
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“We're seeing a big push through the Midwest on companies wanting to build these massive data centers really through the glut of the Midwest. And we think it's kind of like Cushing's Oklahoma, where we store our oil. Now we think data is going to be kind of the new oil. And so we're going to try and store our data here in the U S centrally into the Midwest. So we're seeing a big push in some farm ground being gobbled up for a big data center.”
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