Ida enters a rural county where Leah Mercer, her husband Cal, and their daughter June are living with a low-frequency presence no official measurement wants to recognize. Complaints, zoning, easements, valuation, noise studies, meeting notices, standing rules, and appeal windows align around a massive data-center transformation of farmland. The case becomes a land-use struggle over what counts as harm, who qualifies to object, and how quickly an institution can revise its procedures once citizens learn where to press.
