Developers Offer Every Home in Town $10,000 for 1,300-Acre AI Data Center

TechRadar published the account on 30 September 2026. The report did not name the developer, the town, the state or country involved, the planned computing capacity of the site, or the total value of the payments offered. Because the figure is quoted per house, the total cost of the offer depends on how many homes the town contains, a number the report did not provide. Nor does the report say whether the $10,000 would be paid when an offer is accepted, when permits are approved, or when construction finishes.

The page carrying the report also included a biography of Benedict, a senior security writer at TechRadar Pro, describing his work on geopolitics, cyber-warfare and critical national infrastructure. No statement from the developer, from town officials or from residents appeared alongside the account of the offer, and no document, filing or public record relating to the project was cited.

The size of the site is the only physical detail given: 1,300 acres, roughly two square miles. Nothing in the report indicates what portion of that land would hold buildings, what portion would be left undeveloped, or where the power and water needed to run a facility of that scale would come from — questions that typically determine whether a project of this size can be permitted and built.

What the report establishes is the form of the proposal: a cash payment to each household in the affected town, presented as part of an effort to build a 1,300-acre AI data center. What it leaves open is everything else about the transaction, including the identity of the parties on both sides.