"At Pintlala Water we are dedicated to provide safe and reliable water services to our community. Our mission is to ensure that every household has access to clean drinking water while promoting sustainability and conservation."
Why this matters.
Hyperscale data centers consume millions of gallons of water per day for cooling and humidification. Cloverleaf has not disclosed peak gallons-per-day for Project Red Clay. The Pintlala Water System exists to deliver safe drinking water to households — not to underwrite the cooling load of an industrial facility whose operator has not yet been named.
We are not asking the board to vote no without information. We are asking the board to refuse any service agreement until Cloverleaf provides peak and average daily water demand in gallons, supported by a third-party engineering analysis paid for by the developer.
Per a former Pintlala Water System employee, parts of Lowndesboro also draw from the Pintlala system. We have requested confirmation from the Pintlala Water System and will update this page when we have a sourced answer.
One of the five shareholder-elected directors, Thomas Ellis, also serves as President of the Lowndes County Economic Development Commission — the body recruiting Project Red Clay. The same individual who would vote on whether Pintlala Water serves the data center is the same individual recruiting the data center to Lowndes County. We see this as a clear structural conflict and a basis for recusal on any Pintlala vote related to Project Red Clay.
The five shareholder-elected directors.
Please call all five and let them hear your concerns about the data center project.
"Be firm but show grace. Tell them we are concerned this project is outside the system's mission statement. We deserve reliable water, and we think our community deserves a better deal than this data center project. We are concerned about the unknowns this brings to our reliable water supply and the safety of our drinking water."