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So we were up in the field and we were picking.

It was just kind of bizarre that all of a sudden we just kept hearing a plane and we're like, there's something about that.

很奇怪的是，我們突然一直聽到飛機的聲音，就覺得有點不對勁。

They're going over the property just way too much.

And sure enough, it did happen.

They called and they said, we're interested in your property.

Nice to meet you.

It's nice to meet you.

Bobby Thompson and Michelle Kennedy are sisters who live here in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

They say they've had multiple offers to purchase their farm from land prospectors who are looking to capitalize on the AI boom.

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania is attracting companies like CoreWeave because of its reliable electrical grid,

state-level incentives, and prime mid-Atlantic location that's close to multiple large cities.

But the AI build-out is impacting communities across the country

and sparking a national confrontation between technology companies and their investors on the one hand and residents on the other.

There are over 4,700 data centers in the U.S., and that number is climbing rapidly.

It's a similar story in Boise, Idaho, where demand for space has skyrocketed since Micron and Meta announced major new projects there.

The growth has been tremendous here.

Mike Adler is the founder and CEO of Adler Industrial, the largest industrial property developer in the Boise area.

The company controls 1,000 acres and a billion dollars worth of real estate across Idaho.

We started in this market with about 1.9 million square feet, and we've grown that to 4.6 million square feet.

Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta's combined capital expenditure was over $167 billion in the second quarter of 2026,

up 79% year over year as the tech giants poured billions into the AI build-out.

Semiconductor manufacturer Micron plans to invest $250 billion in the US through 2035 as the AI boom increases demand for memory.

The AI expansion is fueling a new kind of land rush.

CNBC traveled to Pennsylvania

and Idaho to see why land prospectors are racing in to buy up rural farmland in communities across the nation.

That's the original owners, Pap and Emma, of the farm.

They were our mother's parents.

Michelle Kennedy and Bobby Thompson's family has lived on their farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania for decades.

But lately they're seeing a lot of change.

Explosion, housing, people moving in, warehouses.

So the small town Mount Joy isn't what it once was.

Corweave is building a data center less than 20 miles from their home.

The company is investing $6 billion in the project.

As AI infrastructure expands in their region, Kennedy and Thompson have received repeated offers to sell their farm.

How many offers would you say you've gotten in the past year?

I think within this last year between her and I, we probably had over 50 until we actually had to just tell them to stop.

The sisters put an easement on their property to protect it from industrial development, but they can't stop the change that's happening all around them around them.

It's designed to lock the land so it can only be used for farming.

So it's preserving it.

Will that give you peace of mind?

For our own property.

You know, we just can't control what happens around us.

Their neighbors have applied to rezone their property and build an industrial park with multiple buildings, internal roadways and facilities to accommodate hundreds of employees.

Stella!

Can you imagine if you had, you know, a thousand vehicles parked 24-7?

They're not going to be comfortable.

Cows don't produce milk if they're not in there relaxed and laid down.

Let's go, ladies.

What do you think this area will look like in five to ten years?

My goodness, it's changed so much already in five years.

I'm almost frightened to think about it.

I mean, it's not going to be Little Mount Joy anymore.

I mean, it isn't already.

Behind me is one of two massive semiconductor fabrication plants that Micron is building in the Boise area.

And about 10 to 15 miles that way, Meta is building an enormous data center.

These projects are pumping in tens of billions of dollars into the Boise area economy, and they're pulling in an army of contractors.

The projects are drawing in companies needed to power, cool, and construct them, all of whom need their own space.

There was a lot of land that, to me, felt like it was in the middle of nowhere and it wasn't really developable.

In 2018, Mike Adler acquired an alfalfa farm in the Boise area.

Then he got a call from FedEx.

They wanted to build on the land.

A year and a half later, he got a call from Amazon.

And then another call from Tesla.

So all of a sudden, our property that I felt like it was in the middle of nowhere, I have three highly credit tenants.

Adler is betting that the projects from Micron and Meta will continue to draw in businesses.

62% of his company's current projects in the Boise Valley area are being built on spec, meaning that buildings are constructed before the tenant has even been secured.

What's it like building on spec?

Is that sounds a little risky?

Spec is being done when we are out of space to lease to our existing customers, and we believe that there's other businesses in the market that need more space.

And that's what you're seeing now?

Yes.

This is a 26,000 square foot space within an 88,000 square foot building that we just completed in the Boise airport area.

We just leased it to a company that does warehousing, fulfillment and distribution for the construction industry.

But anticipating demand comes with risks.

Memory stocks like Micron historically cycle through boom and bust periods, which pose a risk to investors and businesses betting big on the AI build out.

Sometimes supply gets beyond demand and at that point that's when we don't build more.

We let those buildings lease up and then once they're leased, then we re-examine the market to determine if it makes sense to build more.

This specific filter was made for a hyperscale data center.

One of the businesses renting warehouse space from Mike Adler is

Air Filter Superstore here in the Boise area led by Phil Dugan, who has seen demand for his products increase as the AI boom in the area has continued.

Pre-2020, when COVID became a thing, we were under $10 million in revenue a year.

Now that we have grown with the AI boom and all the other infrastructure and all our other sectors growing, we have more than tripled that.

Just over the past couple of years, he's gone from renting 7,000 square feet of warehouse space to more than 30,000 square feet.

The company invested about a million dollars in that expansion, and now they're preparing to grow even more.

The next three to five years, we definitely foresee us doubling in size, at least.

I was born and raised here, and this is something that I never expected to happen.

But real estate prices in the area are skyrocketing.

It's a lot more difficult to get space in town than it has been.

The spaces now that we've been looking at in other locations to expand have definitely substantially almost doubled.

seen in most cases over the last three years.

I do have some concerns that growth is becoming too fast.

To see this scale of development and especially in the time period this has happened, it's a little unprecedented.

Harry Sawyer works for a commercial real estate firm in the Boise area.

He says he's seen property values reach up to 15 times what they were before COVID.

These farms have been in the family for generations.

I expect over the next five years, seven years, a lot of this land that we're seeing right here will be developed into industrial.

The land Mike Adler is developing is part of a much bigger national land rush.

In the first half of 2026, investors spent nearly $6 billion buying land in the U.S that had been earmarked for future data centers.

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That's up 79% from a year earlier.

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Data center land deals made up roughly 27% of all spending on development sites in that period.

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demand is for the land that you could actually build on.

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For data center developers, the most valuable property is land with access to huge amounts of electricity.

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So-called powered land is being sold at a premium.

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In Northern Virginia and the Northeast, data center sites have exceeded $8 million an acre.

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An estimated 40,000 acres of powered land is needed worldwide to accommodate anticipated data center growth through 2030.

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But it's not stopping anyone with land thinking that they have found their new gold rush.

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Speculators are sometimes buying up land without knowing

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if they can get the permits and power access to actually build a data center there.

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The supply that's out there is land that first has to be entitled, infrastructure built, and bringing power,

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water, internet kind of to it.

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These utilities, electricity, natural gas,

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there is a huge backlog just in the practice of finding out if this particular site can serve what the client wants.

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if they can't receive the zoning and if they can't receive the infrastructure, they're going to have an illiquid asset for a while.

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In Pennsylvania, Governor Josh Shapiro has said that of the more than 100 data center proposals in the state, only five have the permits to actually begin operating.

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We have seen an unacceptable number of speculative proposals for data center development that is swamping our Commonwealth,

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many of them led by developers who have no regard for local communities.

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In August, Shapiro signed an executive order designed to prevent data centers' electric costs from being passed down onto residents, to limit water use and increase transparency with local communities.

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In Texas, Governor Greg Abbott has directed state regulators to require data centers to fully fund their electric infrastructure needs

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and stop passing those costs along to residents.

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U.S electricity consumption is projected to rise by nearly 2% a year through 2030, more than twice the rate of the past decade as the data center buildout continues.

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A shortage of available near-term power is limiting how quickly some land can be developed.

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It could take a year to really figure out how electricity is going to be distributed onto this site.

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The cost of new infrastructure isn't the millions and ultimately billions because you're affecting the grids.

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are at least subsidizing or sharing in the cost of the upgrades of infrastructure.

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So this is real.

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I think there will continue to be pushback.

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As state and federal officials debate over AI regulations, land investors and owners are grappling over decisions that will transform their communities.

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It's a farm, it'll stay a farm.

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And even if our children don't want it, it'll still be a farm.

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這節 B2 級別的口語課以影片“Inside The Real Estate Rush Behind AI”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：land, center, property, Boise, farm。這段影片共有 130 個句子、1822 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 10:52。說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 168 個詞，接近日常對話。 82% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，其餘的詞建議在練習前先學一下。

影片中的重點詞彙

影片中最難的 15 個單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
investor 名詞	/ɪnˈvɛs.tə(ɹ)/	投資者 /投資者, 投資家 /投資家
warehouse 名詞	/ˈwɛə(ɹ)haʊs/	倉庫 /倉庫
lease 名詞	/liːs/	租約 /租約
acre 名詞	/ˈeɪ.kɚ/	英畝 /英畝
prospector 名詞	/ˈpɹɑsˌpɛktɚ/	採礦者 /採礦者, 探礦者 /探礦者
skyrocket 動詞	/ˈskaɪˌɹɒk.ɪt/	飛漲 /飛漲, 平步青雲 /平步青雲
semiconductor 名詞	/ˌsɛmikənˈdʌktə/	半導體 /半導體
anticipate 動詞	/ænˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/	預料 /預料, 預想 /預想
tenant 名詞	/ˈtɛ.nənt/	房客
construct 動詞	/ˈkɑn.stɹʌkt/	建造, 建設 /建設
accommodate 動詞	/əˈkɑməˌdeɪt/	容納
grid 名詞	/ɡɹɪd/	網格 /網格, 格子
alfalfa 名詞	/ælˈfælfə/	苜蓿, 紫花苜蓿
backlog 名詞	/ˈbæk(ˌ)lɔɡ/	存貨 /存貨, 儲備 /儲備
easement 名詞	/ˈizmənt/	地役權

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	發音	釋義
figure out 動詞		弄清楚
find out 動詞		找出, 查明
make up 動詞	/ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/	組成 /組成

值得反覆跟讀的句子

影片中簡短而完整的句子，可以直接用在日常對話裡：

It's nice to meet you.
They were our mother's parents.
How many offers would you say you've gotten in the past year?
Will that give you peace of mind?
I'm almost frightened to think about it.

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：

結構	影片中的用法
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事	they've had · has skyrocketed · has been
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	being built · being done · was made

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 31 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 they're, can't, don't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“sh” 和 “zh” 音: speculation /ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, fabrication /fæbɹɪˈkeɪʃən/, confrontation /ˌkɑn.fɹənˈteɪ.ʃən/, shortage /ˈʃɔː(ɹ)tɪd͡ʒ/
長單詞——注意重音位置: speculation /ˌspɛk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, developer /dɪˈvɛləpɚ/, semiconductor /ˌsɛmikənˈdʌktə/, anticipate /ænˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/, accommodate /əˈkɑməˌdeɪt/

如何用這段影片練習

先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟讀，熟練之後再回到正常速度。
錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 investor, warehouse, lease 這類單詞。

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