An 86-year-old Pennsylvania farmer has declined a multimillion-dollar offer from data center developers, choosing instead to preserve the land that has defined his life.
Mervin Raudabaugh of Cumberland County turned down a proposal exceeding $15 million for his 261-acre property, despite developers offering approximately $60,000 per acre. Speaking in a Feb. 16 interview with Fox 43, Raudabaugh explained that financial considerations were not his primary concern.
“I was not interested in destroying my farms,” said Raudabaugh, who has spent nearly six decades farming in Silver Spring Township. “That was the bottom line. It really wasn’t about the economic end of it. I just didn’t want to see these two farms destroyed.”…