The pension fund anchoring Cloverleaf publicly commits to responsible investing. This is what that commitment is for.

The capital structure.

Cloverleaf was founded in February 2024 by three energy executives — David Berry (CEO), Brian Janous (CCO, formerly head of energy at Microsoft), and Jonathan Abebe (CTO, formerly U.S. Department of Energy). They raised $300 million in less than a year. The lead investors are NGP's Sustainable Infrastructure platform and Sandbrook Capital, plus management. Sandbrook is a transition-focused infrastructure investor anchored by OTPP. Cloverleaf publicly states it is pursuing 10–15 gigawatts of peak power capacity across all sites — Lowndes is one node in that larger pipeline.^R3

What OTPP says about responsible investing.

OTPP's published responsible-investing framework states that the pension plan defines sustainable investing as "integrating and managing material sustainability-related risks and opportunities throughout the investment process," and that its investment program is "designed to generate stable risk-adjusted returns while also having a positive impact on the people, places and communities their investments touch."^R4

Three patterns documented in this campaign — and reproduced across Cloverleaf's six known sites — are exactly the kind of material, headline-driving risks that a pension fund's responsible-investing policy is supposed to catch:

1. The withdrawal pattern. Cloverleaf has withdrawn from three of its eight publicly known projects in seven months (Greenleaf WI, Dundee MI, Edwardsville IL). The company's own Chief Development Officer publicly acknowledged that the firm "should have done more public communication and listening." The capital-efficiency story embedded in the $300M raise depends on these projects converting; the operational track record so far suggests the conversion rate is structurally vulnerable to community organizing.
2. The secret-talks pattern. In Edwardsville, Illinois, the Illinois Answers Project obtained ~24 emails via public records showing nearly a year of detailed Cloverleaf-Edwardsville discussions while city officials publicly told residents there was "no formal proposal."^R5That pattern — privately advancing a project while publicly denying it — is reputationally and legally exposing for the pension fund's portfolio.
3. The Lowndes County environment. Project Red Clay is sited in the only U.S. county with a documented federal Title VI environmental-justice settlement (DOJ/HHS with the Alabama Department of Public Health, May 2023; terminated by the Trump-era DOJ in April 2025). The underlying conditions and documentary record remain.^R6 A pension fund whose investment is materially associated with a project that becomes the subject of renewed civil-rights litigation is exactly the headline event responsible-investing policy exists to surface in advance.

What we're asking, and who's asking it.

We are not asking OTPP or Sandbrook to divest or to liquidate their position in Cloverleaf. We are asking, simply, that the questions Cloverleaf has not answered in Lowndes — and the patterns documented across Cloverleaf's prior sites — be surfaced through OTPP's own published responsible-investing process, and that any portfolio-level commitments Cloverleaf makes to address those patterns be made binding on the eventual hyperscale operator-tenant of any flipped site.

That is the same framework the coalition is asking the Lowndes County Commission to apply locally — see the five demands.

For Canadian / OTPP-stakeholder press.

The story for OTPP-stakeholder press (The Globe and Mail, The Logic, FT, Bloomberg, Reuters): Canada's largest pension fund is materially exposed to a U.S. data-center developer that has walked away from three states in seven months and is targeting a U.S. county with the only documented federal Title VI environmental-justice record in the country. Whether or not OTPP divests, the absence of due-diligence framing visible to its beneficiaries — Ontario teachers — is itself the story.