Why a Pennsylvania farmer refused big tech developer’s $15M offer for his property

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A Pennsylvania  farmer turned down the chance to become a multimillionaire in order to  preserve  his land. When a  data center developer  wanted to snap up 86-year-old Mervin Raudabaugh’s 261 acres over two farms in Mechanicsburg, it dangled $15 million in front of the lifelong farmer. But Raudabaugh turned the windfall down, choosing instead to transfer the land at a fraction of the offered price to a land trust. “It was my life,” Raudabaugh told  Fox 43 News  of the land he has farmed for 50

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