§ PRINT HANDOUT · JUNE 3

The open-house handout.

Two sides, letter size. Print at home, share at church, hand to a neighbor at the door of Hayneville Middle School on Wednesday, June 3. Open your browser's print menu (Ctrl+P on Windows, Cmd+P on Mac) and choose Save as PDF if you want a file to send. Set scale to 100% and margins to default; the two sheets are designed to fall on their own pages.

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In their own words. Cloverleaf vs. Cloverleaf.

They told Michigan they wouldn't build where they're unwelcome.

Then they came here. Seven things Cloverleaf has said, in writing or on the record, that fail their own standard in Lowndes County.

01
“Cloverleaf will not work in communities where this type of development is unwelcome or the development does not match the existing use for the land. That is a decision we will make ten times out of ten.”
Michael Evans, Development Principal, Cloverleaf Infrastructure — email to Dundee Township and Village of Dundee, Michigan, Sept 23, 2025. Released under Michigan FOIA.

02
“What we typically look for is leadership that is willing to have the conversations and facilitate those conversations.”
Aaron Bilyeu, Chief Development Officer, Cloverleaf Infrastructure — Wrightstown, Wisconsin, May 2026. (Same area Cloverleaf publicly withdrew from in Greenleaf in January.)

03
“It will sit there quietly, and no one will realize it's there.”
Aaron Bilyeu, Chief Development Officer, Cloverleaf Infrastructure — The Lowndes Signal, April 2026. The facility is 5,000,000 sq ft, 3× the power of all of Lowndes County.

04
The cooling will be closed-loop, “the same as a small office building.”
Aaron Bilyeu, Chief Development Officer, Cloverleaf Infrastructure — to Lowndes residents. Meta Hope Hull, 12 miles east: public figure 30,000 gpd, actual contract 150,000 gpd + 90,000 gpd wastewater.

05
A community-facing public meeting could come “at a later stage of project development.”
Michael Evans, Project Red Clay Manager, Cloverleaf Infrastructure — The Lowndes Signal. The thirty-year abatement is the most valuable asset on the package; disclosure is structured to follow the lock-in, not precede it.

06
“After speaking to leadership at the Village of Greenleaf and the Town of Wrightstown, Cloverleaf will not be pursuing datacenters.”
Aaron Bilyeu, Chief Development Officer, Cloverleaf Infrastructure — Greenleaf, Wisconsin withdrawal statement, January 2026. Issued after a single community meeting of approximately 100 residents organized in under a week. By spring 2026 Cloverleaf was back in the adjacent Village of Wrightstown.

07
Cloverleaf “should have done more public communication and listening.”
Cloverleaf Infrastructure — Dundee Township, Michigan withdrawal acknowledgment, October 2025, after the village council voted to block the water supply.

Tonight you are the test of their own standard.

Test 1: Is this welcome? Test 2: Does it match the existing use? Both fail. → 45strong.net

What to ask. What you already know.

Five questions they cannot answer. Eight receipts they wish you didn't have.

Five questions, one per station. Ask for every answer in writing.

01Name the tenant.
Name the company that would actually own this campus, sign the water and power contracts, and pay the property-tax bill. In writing, tonight.
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.
02Water — in gallons.
Peak daily water demand, in gallons, with a third-party engineering analysis behind it. Not closed-loop. Not a small office building. Gallons.
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.
03What is your withdrawal trigger?
You wrote in Michigan: Cloverleaf will not work where this kind of development is unwelcome. Ten times out of ten. What is the test? Who decides?
If they dodge: Greenleaf: one meeting, 100 residents. Dundee: a water vote. Edwardsville: a paper trail. Lowndes is more organized than any of them.
04What is different about Lowndes?
You walked away from Greenleaf, Dundee, and Edwardsville in seven months under community opposition. Why are you still here?
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.
05Will you come back under a different name?
Will you commit in writing tonight that no Cloverleaf-affiliated entity — no Red Clay DevCo, no successor, no rebrand — files for a data center in Lowndes County?
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.

Things they will not tell you, that you already know.

7 / 3 / 1 / 0Cloverleaf sites known. Withdrawn. Flipped. Operated. They have never run a data center.
5,000,000 ft²The facility as proposed. Roughly 4× the Meta Hope Hull campus.
30,000 → 150,000 gpdHope Hull's public figure vs. actual contract. Plus 90,000 gpd of wastewater. Cloverleaf says ours is “like a small office building.”
+$11.24 / monthWhat Virginia's Dominion residential customers already pay in 2026 because of data-center load. Cloverleaf's “no impact” promise is not a PSC filing.
~50 → ~9Permanent jobs claimed vs. independent estimate of how many go to Lowndes residents.
$1M up front · $9M gatedThe CACF community pledge. The $9M is milestone-gated on conditions Cloverleaf controls. No Lowndes resident on the foundation board.
30 → 20 yrs, Jan 1 2027HB399 caps abatements at 20 years on Jan 1, 2027. Cloverleaf's land option expires Jan 27, 2027. Twenty-six days apart.
10–15 GWCloverleaf's stated national pipeline. Lowndes is one node, not the whole project.

They said it. Let's show them they aren't welcome.

Sign the petition. Bring a neighbor. Ask for every answer in writing. → 45strong.net/take-action