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The short version

The proposal is called Project Red Clay. The public site plan describes roughly 800 acres near the junction of U.S. Highway 80 and Alabama Highway 21 at Burkville, about six miles southwest of Montgomery, and roughly 3.01 million square feet of buildings¹².

The project is reported to have requested roughly 1,500 megawatts of electricity. Alabama's new large-load statute defines a data-center customer subject to Public Service Commission review as one with expected peak demand of at least 150 megawatts. The reported request is about ten times that threshold³⁴.

The developer is Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a Houston company that describes itself as a developer of ready-to-build sites: it assembles land and power, then sells the package to a hyperscale operator⁵. Who would actually operate this facility has never been disclosed⁶.

What we are asking for

Not a ban. Disclosure, before a vote rather than after it. Name the operator. Publish the executed water contract and the electric-service agreement. State what the thirty-year abatement is worth in dollars⁷. Make the community benefit enforceable and say who enforces it. A good project survives all of that.

What we are not saying

We are not saying anyone has broken the law. We are not naming a tenant we cannot prove. Where the evidence cuts against us we publish it anyway: a George Mason University study found homes closer to data centers in Northern Virginia tended to sell for higher prices, though the authors caution it may not generalize to rural markets⁸.

Every number on this site carries its source. If we get something wrong, tell us and we will correct it in public.