We are not negotiating. We are asking them to leave. The package they need to assemble — operator, water, power, road — has questions at every door that they cannot answer.
Cloverleaf Infrastructure is expected to ask Lowndes County to lock in a 30-year property tax abatement on a $1B+ data center campus1 — before HB399 takes effect on January 1, 2027 and cuts the abatement ceiling to 20 years.2 Cloverleaf has not named the operator.3 They have not disclosed water use in writing. They have walked away from communities that organized.4 By their own written standard — Michigan FOIA, September 23, 2025 — this is the place they walk away from. Lowndes is asking them to honor that, and adding pressure where it actually moves: on the package, and on the investors funding it.
An approximately 1,000-acre hyperscale data center campus proposed at U.S. 80 and AL 21 near Burkville. Developer is Cloverleaf Infrastructure (Houston). The operator who would actually run it has not been named.
The tenant. The gallons. The megawatts. A real withdrawal trigger. A guarantee Cloverleaf will not come back under a different name.
Water, power bills, noise, diesel backup emissions, ~1,000 acres of Black Belt landscape, school-tax giveaways, and a permanent industrial footprint that survives every owner change.
Cloverleaf to withdraw. Until they do: every public question asked in writing, every recusal demanded, every neighbor told, every investor put on notice. Respectful pressure. Filled rooms.
Every quote on the left is what Cloverleaf has actually said, on the record. Every line on the right is the missing context — the structural reality that turns a press release into a 30-year abatement question.
The stat strip above is the appetizer. These are the six full deep-dives — water, power, health, economy, wildlife, and what it does to the neighborhood. Every claim sourced.
These are not the five demands. They are the questions Cloverleaf either cannot answer at all, or will try to answer and find that the room knows the receipt already. One per station at the open house. Ask for every answer in writing.
If they dodge: Cloverleaf does not operate data centers. No tenant has signed because the abatement is the asset they flip. No name means no project.
If they dodge: Meta Hope Hull, 12 miles east: 30,000 gpd disclosed publicly, 150,000 gpd intake plus 90,000 gpd wastewater in the actual contract.
If they dodge: Greenleaf: one meeting, 100 residents. Dundee: a water vote. Edwardsville: a paper trail. Lowndes is more organized than any of them.
If they dodge: HB399 cuts the abatement from 30 to 20 years on Jan 1, 2027. Your option expires Jan 27, 2027. Twenty-six days apart. The math is the math.
If they dodge: Georgia: Rum Creek DevCo LLC. Wisconsin: withdrew from Greenleaf, returned through Wrightstown four months later. Without that guarantee, withdrawal is a pause.
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Cloverleaf's June 3 community open house is the meeting residents have demanded for months. It is designed to minimize confrontation. Show up. Bring the questions. Ask for every answer in writing.
The full file on Cloverleaf Infrastructure: a developer that has never operated a data center, runs secret talks with local officials, makes promises that bind no eventual operator, and treats withdrawals as pauses. The company now wants Lowndes to commit thirty years of tax base to an unnamed tenant.
The survey strings are tied to Rev. Tom Garner's back fence. He told the Commission the developer is like a man who built a house who does not know who will live in it, and closed with two words: don't give up.
The public hearing on Project Red Clay. The Commission has not yet posted a date. When it does, every demand letter and recusal letter needs a reply, and every undecided resident needs to be in the room.
Pick one, do it today, and come back for the next. The goal is withdrawal. Every action puts another lock on the door.
One signature. One minute. The petition is hosted on Change.org so the count is public, the comments are visible to the press, and the commissioners can see your name on the record.
The Hayneville commission meeting on April 28 ran out of seats and people stood outside in the rain.59 Showing up is the highest-leverage hour you have this month.
A two-page PDF in plain English. Side A: seven verbatim Cloverleaf quotes with names, dates, and sources. Side B: five hard questions to ask at Cloverleaf's open house, with the receipts to deploy if they dodge. Designed to leave on a kitchen table or hand out at church.
The opposition is volunteer. Yard signs, printed flyers, and consulting time of a land-use attorney are not. A funding structure is being set up; we will not collect contributions through this site until that structure is in place and audited.
