A seventh-generation Maryland Christmas tree farmer is sounding the alarm about a 500-kilovolt power line that could one day cut through her field of Douglas firs and blue spruces.

The Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project (MPRP) is the first of several transmission line projects across Maryland that aim to bolster the reliability of the state’s power grid and affordability for consumers, according to the project’s website. However, rural Maryland farmer Lisa Gaver told NBC News that MPRP’s 67-mile transmission line is nothing more than an “extension cord” for data centers in Northern Virginia, and that she wants no part of it.

Unlike buried or less obtrusive infrastructure, this overhead high-voltage line would tower above the treeline, making it visually prominent from nearly every vantage point on the farm. The proposed MPRP line will cut diagonally across her 40-acre Christmas tree field, skimming a parking lot, traversing wooded areas, and........

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