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Widow's Plans for Her Final Years Upended as Proposed Data Center Leads to 28 Evictions in One Neighborhood
https://people.com/widows-plans-for-final-years-upended-proposed-data-center-leads-to-28-evictions-one-neighborhood-exclusive-11948396Lisa Helphinstine never thought she'd face homelessness, but then again she never imagined tech companies would be interested in buying a mobile home park in rural Kentucky.
Helphinstine is just one of 28 residents of Meadowland Village Mobile Home Park in Mason County who received notice that the property is under contract for sale to an unnamed “Fortune 500” company, which has yet to be identified, planning to build a 2,000-acre data center.
“They just up and said you have 90 days to move,” Helphinstine, 50, tells PEOPLE. “I have no idea what I'm going to do. I bought the mobile home so I could have somewhere to live. Now, I'm going to be homeless because I'm going to lose my home.”
Helphinstine is a disabled widow who purchased her mobile home with money she inherited after her husband died seven years ago. She says even if she could move her home or find another one, there are no other mobile home parks nearby and local ordinances require five-acre lots with all hookups, including water, electricity and septic.
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Helphinstine is just one of 28 residents of Meadowland Village Mobile Home Park in Mason County who received notice that the property is under contract for sale to an unnamed “Fortune 500” company, which has yet to be identified, planning to build a 2,000-acre data center.
“They just up and said you have 90 days to move,” Helphinstine, 50, tells PEOPLE. “I have no idea what I'm going to do. I bought the mobile home so I could have somewhere to live. Now, I'm going to be homeless because I'm going to lose my home.”
Helphinstine is a disabled widow who purchased her mobile home with money she inherited after her husband died seven years ago. She says even if she could move her home or find another one, there are no other mobile home parks nearby and local ordinances require five-acre lots with all hookups, including water, electricity and septic.
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... so it makes sense that the Big-Ass Data Centers are looking at properties like this. The owners are usually happy to sell out and make $ millions, leaving the former renters kicked out and screwed. They probably never read their leases before they signed them.
