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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Project Red Clay.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Cloverleaf Infrastructure
- Address and locality
- Lowndes County · Alabama
- Official metro area
- Montgomery, AL
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,500 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 28 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000264
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- Alabama Power
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Land area
- 800 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $1.5 billion
- Announced jobs
- 50 permanent · 1,000 construction
- Community response
- Provider label: opposed
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
Provider notes
Energy. Route Fifty: "The facility has requested 1,500 megawatts of energy capacity from Alabama Power." WSFA reports the site sits "underneath a 500 kV electrical line" near the U.S. 80 / Alabama 21 intersection, and that the company was still finalizing power contracts as of 4 June 2026. Cloverleaf states on its project site that it will fund the necessary electric-service upgrades itself.
Water. Developer's project site states the building "will only use as much water as an office building on a day-to-day basis" and uses "a closed-loop cooling system requiring a one-time fill" — an explicitly recirculating circuit, hence closed_loop. Separately, a Cloverleaf representative told WSFA: "The most amount of water that we've asked for for consumption is 100,000 gallons of water per day." That is a requested maximum, not metered use, so it is NOT recorded as reportedMgd. …
Community. Route Fifty (25 Aug 2026): "About 350 people signed the group's petition demanding more transparency from the commission" — the group is Protect Lowndes County, which filed an open-records request on 27 July 2026 seeking project documentation and entity lists. WSFA (4 June 2026) records a resident telling the developer "We're from Lowndes County...Go home. We don't want you," alongside concerns about water use, power bills, noise and transparency. …
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- Reported water use: The source note says 100,000 gallons per day is a requested maximum, not metered use, and was not meant to be recorded as reported water use.
What the source record says
SUBSIDY — CONFIRMED ABSENCE AS OF 24 JULY 2026: Yellowhammer News reports that no formal abatement request had been filed as of that date, and that the granting body would be the Lowndes County Commission. Under legislation signed by Gov. Kay Ivey in April 2026, an abatement approved before 1 January 2027 could run up to 30 years; after that date the maximum is 20 years. No dollar amount has been stated by any source, so no subsidies entry is recorded. NO NAMED TENANT: Cloverleaf is described by Yellowhammer as a Houston- and Seattle-based speculative developer assembling land for an unnamed future operator; aiClassification is therefore "likely", not confirmed. CONFLICTING FIGURES, recorded rather than reconciled: investment is "$1.5 billion" per WSFA and Route Fifty ("at least $1.5 billion in the development stage") but the developer's own site says "Over a $1 billion taxable investment in Lowndes County". Jobs: the developer's site says "Over 1,000 high-paying construction jobs" and "at least 50 full-time jobs" once operational; other coverage this run could not fetch cites 1,000-1,500 construction and over 200 permanent — the developer's own lower figures are recorded here. Footprint: "more than 800 acres in northeast Lowndes County" and "2.88 million square feet" (Yellowhammer). ZONING: reporting notes Cloverleaf could buy and develop here because Lowndes County has no planning or zoning authority. Coordinates are the OSM-confirmed U.S. 80 / AL 21 junction that WSFA names as the site vicinity — NOT a parcel boundary; the actual footprint is somewhere in northeast Lowndes County near that junction. Inside Climate News and WBHM coverage of this project returned HTTP 403 to both source retrieval and direct retrieval in this run and is therefore not cited.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
No status history was supplied in this edition.
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- Home - Project Red Clay (developer's project site) · Cloverleaf Infrastructure
- Cloverleaf responds to Lowndes County data center concerns after weeks of resident pushback (4 June 2026) · WSFA 12 News
- Lowndes County residents demand transparency in hyperscale data center development (25 Aug 2026) · Route Fifty
- Mystery data center could receive 30-year tax break beside sacred Selma march ground · Yellowhammer News
- Overpass API query confirming the U.S. 80 / Alabama 21 junction in Lowndes County at 32.2700221, -86.5128035 (OSM ways 7795301 "AL 21", 107723832 "US 80;AL 21", 990934473 "US 80") · OpenStreetMap / Overpass API
- Proposed data centers could use more electricity than all Alabama homes combined. Who will pay? · WBHM 90.3
- Proposed Data Centers Could Use More Electricity Than All Alabama Homes Combined, Analysis Shows. Who Will Pay? · Inside Climate News
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID cloverleaf-red-clay-lowndes-al. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000264
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): likely
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- AL · Lowndes (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Cloverleaf Infrastructure
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported proposed
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 800 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 1,500 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Alabama Power
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $1.5 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Announced jobs: 50 permanent · 1,000 construction
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: opposed
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-28
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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