Five sites, one template
Any reporter can verify
this in ten minutes.
Cloverleaf publishes a near-identical microsite for each project it pursues. Open five URLs, and Lowndes County is the only one that got no local tax figure and no named partner.
The network
Same template, different community.
Cloverleaf operates at least five community-facing project microsites, each following the pattern "[project-codename]datacenter.com": redclaydatacenter.com (Lowndes County, Alabama), ironwooddatacenter.com (Dundee, Michigan), cherryblossomdatacenter.com (Frenchtown Township, Michigan), bluestemdatacenter.com (Leavenworth County, Kansas), and openskydatacenter.com (Piedmont, Oklahoma). All five carry the WordPress metadata description "A Cloverleaf Infrastructure Project" and byte-identical page IDs for the same pages, created November 5-6, 2025.1
The comparison
What each site promises.
| Site | Local tax figure | Permanent jobs | Named partners |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cherry BlossomFrenchtown Twp., Michigan | "Total Local Government: $14.8 million," Monroe County’s own estimate | 100+ full-time, ~1,500 construction | — |
| IronwoodDundee, Michigan | — | Several hundred full-time | IBEW Local 8, UA Local 671, named |
| BluestemLeavenworth Co., Kansas | Multi-billion-dollar taxable investment | 50+, growing to 200+ at buildout | — |
| Open SkyPiedmont, Oklahoma | — | 50+ full-time | — |
| Red ClayLowndes County, Alabama | None published | "At least 50" full-time, generic third-person only | None named |
Sourced individually to each site’s own FAQ page, current as of the dates below.23456
What Cloverleaf has already conceded, in writing
Every one of these is on a township government server.
A Cloverleaf-authored question-and-answer document, hosted on Dundee Township, Michigan's own website and dated October 8, 2025, commits to terms Lowndes County has not received.
TRANSPARENCY - We don’t sign NDAs with local governments or landowners - we work openly and honestly with the communities where we site projects.
All contractual obligations entered into on behalf of Project Ironwood will be transferred and assigned to the company that purchases the project, and that company will be legally required to adhere to those obligations.
Before any sale happens, the Village and Township will have the chance to meet the company that plans to purchase Project Ironwood and learn about how it will invest in and work with the community.
Cloverleaf will not sue the Village or Township if Project Ironwood is denied in accordance with Michigan laws and regulations.
Enforceable noise limit of 70 decibels at the property lines, memorialized in the Development Agreement.
7 Demand each of these, in writing, embedded in any development agreement as a binding successor-and-assigns clause.
A preservation emergency
The developer’s own site has never been archived.
A Wayback Machine query for redclaydatacenter.com returns zero captures, with or without "www," on domain or prefix match. Cloverleaf’s corporate site has 622 captures going back to 2024.
Meanwhile the site’s own public data shows its FAQ page was edited on July 15, 2026, one week after the state stormwater permit took effect, with no newsroom post or public notice.89
An environmental-justice question
Ask the question the documents actually support.
Lowndes County is a majority-Black county with a documented history of being asked to absorb what other places would not: a 2018 Title VI complaint over failing septic systems and straight-pipe sewage, a 2017 United Nations human-rights visit, and the first federal environmental-justice Title VI settlement of its kind, terminated in 2025.
Cloverleaf gave that county generic corporate boilerplate for the same class of project it gave a Michigan township a published county tax-revenue estimate and named union partners for. That comparison, on its own, is a legitimate environmental-justice question to put to Cloverleaf, the LCEDC, and the Lowndes County Commission on the record.
State the comparison, not the motive. The documents establish a difference in what was published. They do not establish why, and this site does not assert an intent that the record does not carry.6101112
Read the full sanitation and Title VI record on Sacred Ground.
Sources on this page
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Cloverleaf project microsite network (redclaydatacenter.com and four sibling sites), Cloverleaf Infrastructure (2026-08-07). Public WordPress REST API page metadata (/wp-json/wp/v2/pages), each site — view source
Accessed 2026-08-10 - ↑
Project Cherry Blossom FAQ, Cloverleaf Infrastructure (2026-08-07). FAQ page, as published — view source
Accessed 2026-08-10 - ↑
Project Ironwood FAQ, Cloverleaf Infrastructure (2026-08-07). FAQ page, as published — view source
Accessed 2026-08-10 - ↑
Project Bluestem FAQ, Cloverleaf Infrastructure (2026-08-07). FAQ page, as published — view source
Accessed 2026-08-10 - ↑
Project Open Sky FAQ, Cloverleaf Infrastructure (2026-08-07). FAQ page, as published — view source
Accessed 2026-08-10 - ↑
Project Red Clay FAQ, Cloverleaf Infrastructure (2026-08-10). FAQ page, as published — view source
Accessed 2026-08-10 - ↑
Cloverleaf Townhall Questions and Answers, Dundee Township, Michigan (hosting Cloverleaf-authored material) (2025-10-08). PDF metadata shows authorship by Cloverleaf’s Michael Evans, dated 2025-10-08 — view source
Accessed 2026-08-10 - ↑
Wayback Machine CDX API query, redclaydatacenter.com, Internet Archive (2026-08-07). CDX query result, zero rows — view source
Accessed 2026-08-10 - ↑
redclaydatacenter.com public WordPress REST API page metadata, Cloverleaf Infrastructure (2026-07-15). /wp-json/wp/v2/pages, FAQ page (id 227), "modified" field — view source
Accessed 2026-08-10 - ↑
Documentary record of the Lowndes County sanitation crisis, Earthjustice / CREEJ, United Nations, American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (2018-01-01). Compiled documentary record
Accessed 2026-07-27 - ↑
Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services announce interim resolution agreement, U.S. Department of Justice (2023-05-04). DOJ/HHS press release — view source
Accessed 2026-07-12 - ↑
U.S. Justice Department abandons Lowndes County residents suffering longstanding sewage problems, Equal Justice Initiative (2025-04-11). Termination — view source
Accessed 2026-07-27
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