Voices.

Beside the site

The people who would live next to it.

1. PlayPlay The Next Generation, 2:59

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   Trevor Haney

   Born and raised in Lowndes County

   “They’re asking us to live with long-term consequences, but only projected benefits.”

   Trevor Haney was born and raised in Lowndes County, as his father was, and he said he is the next generation coming up. From his front porch he sees cattle, open land and trees. He went to the open house Cloverleaf held and asked questions, and he said he came away with surface-level answers and different water-usage figures from different representatives. He said the community has asked for transparency from the beginning and still has not got it.¹​

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2. PlayPlay The Walk, 3:07

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   Veronica Lane

   Moved to Lowndes County 18 years ago

   “We’re not going to give up. We’re not going to bow down. Not at all.”

   Veronica Lane and her husband moved to Lowndes County 18 years ago because it was quiet. She said she has lupus and walks outside every morning, and that this project would take that freedom away from her. She taught biology years ago and talked about what it would do to the animals, the air and her own health. She said residents who ask questions at meetings never get straight answers, and that the water system already fails some years around Thanksgiving.²​

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3. PlayPlay More to Life Than Money, 3:42

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   Joseph Spraggins

   Moved down from Montgomery two and a half years ago

   “It’s more to life than money.”

   Joseph Spraggins left Montgomery two and a half years ago for the quiet, and he said friends who visit him tell him how peaceful it is. A next-door neighbor mentioned the data center to him around April, and he said nobody connected to the project has contacted him since. His own reading points to millions of gallons of water and a heavy electrical load. A neighbor who has welded for industrial complexes warned him about the noise and about the generators. He said he sees no benefit reaching the citizens of Lowndes County.³​

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4. PlayPlay The School Bus, 3:52

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   Bradfield Evans

   Cattle farmer, CK Cattle

   “The backroom deals and the shady handshakes is how this project got to where it is today.”

   Bradfield Evans married into a Lowndes County family and has farmed here for 17 years, running cattle on about seven wells. He said the project sits directly on the road his children take to school every day, and that he cannot picture the construction traffic a thousand-acre site would put on Highway 80 alongside them. He said the people of Lowndes County were never asked whether they wanted this, and that had anyone asked, they would probably have said no politely.⁴​

   The School BusInterviewed August 21, 2026Watch on YouTube →

5. PlayPlay The Sunset, 4:54

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   John Urquhart

   Bought his property to retire on

   “I look at the diminished value that’s coming and it just scares the hell out of me.”

   John Urquhart and his wife bought their property six years ago to retire on and to leave to their children and grandchildren. He said the sunset over the ponds sets in the exact direction the project’s lights would sit. He worked 25 years building a business and sold it to buy the land, and he said what is coming for its value frightens him. He said the Commission met residents’ questions with deaf ears, and that the one open house was, in his words, pretty much a joke.⁵​

   The SunsetInterviewed August 21, 2026Watch on YouTube →

6. PlayPlay A Million Homes, 5:30

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   Ed Redman

   Lives about an eighth of a mile from the proposed site

   “How can a million-home electrical requirement not completely upend the electrical grid?”

   Ed Redman and his wife Amanda moved into their neighborhood three summers ago, and he said the proposed site comes within about an eighth of a mile of their property. From the front porch, he said, there is no light pollution and no noise pollution, and you can see for miles. He said the project is supposed to draw the electrical equivalent of a million homes, and he asked how a demand that size could fail to upend the grid. His point to people outside the county is that the cost will not stop at the fence line.⁶​

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7. PlayPlay It’s Home, 6:09

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   Linda Lofton Hall

   Lifelong resident, 85 next month

   “It’s home. It’s the only home I’ve ever known. I’ve never lived anywhere else.”

   Linda Lofton Hall will be 85 next month and has lived in the same area her whole life, where she raised her family. She said one line of the project comes within about 50 yards of her property, and that she has been through something like this before, when GE came into a neighboring community. She first heard talk in May, when neighbors she had been good friends with for years began selling. What she wants people to understand is the quiet: the birds, the wind in the trees, the people.⁷​

   It’s HomeInterviewed August 21, 2026Watch on YouTube →

At the podium

What residents have told the Commission.

Last updated2026-08-26