# DATA CENTERS Are STEALING FARMLAND: Pennsylvania Farmer Fights Eminent Domain | 8/19/26

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Podcast: [Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conservative-review-with-daniel-horowitz-48748)
Published: 2026-08-19T16:44:00+00:00
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## Resource

What happens when a private data center wants electricity — and the power lines must cross a multigenerational American family farm? Pennsylvania dairy farmer Terry Snoddy joins me to reveal what he and his neighbors are facing as a proposed power-line project threatens farmland in Union and Lycoming Counties. Terry explains what this means for the farms themselves — from soil compaction and reduced crop yields to restrictions on future barns, interference with GPS-guided farming, and problems using agricultural drones and aerial applications. And there is a much bigger issue hiding underneath the fight: Who owns America's farmland — and who gets to decide what happens to it? As data-center developers bid against farmers for land, ordinary agricultural operations can be placed at an enormous disadvantage. Terry explains how farmland that may normally sell for tens of thousands of dollars per acre can suddenly face data-center offers many times higher. I also examine the latest Republican primary results and the collapse of the conservative grassroots' ability to defend Freedom Caucus incumbents.  We are being decimated by the RINOs, and most right-wing politicos aren’t even aware of it.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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