Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice - CREEJ

10/16/2026

Lowndes County advocates raised concerns over Project Red Clay’s water use, energy demand and tax incentives ahead of a commission vote on the proposed hypersca...

10/15/2026

https://www.nrdc.org/press-releases/data-center-gets-massive-tax-break-surprise-vote-lowndes-commission?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAcGRvZgRzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwyNTYyODEwNDA1NTgAAacXJSP3e2PsvIkHEgB-lykzoJUOx7Niko_bYQ10mXbneqGhvkdOkdAoMZT3Ow_aem_EMs3IgPkzEUUv7q1LqEwAg

The Lowndes County Commission hastily voted Tuesday to approve a 20-year tax abatement for Project Red Clay, a proposed 800-acre hyperscale data center....

10/14/2026

10/08/2026

Lowndes County residents question transparency around Project Red Clay, a proposed $1.5 billion data center, citing undisclosed environmental and utility detail...

10/08/2026

🎉 Congratulations Catherine Coleman Flowers, a 2026 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient!

Learn more about Catherine and all of this year’s award recipients at unkalumni.org. Award recipients will be recognized at a luncheon on Oct. 2 at UNK.

➡️ A complete schedule of homecoming events can be found at: https://unkalumni.org/homecoming/

10/06/2026

The latest wave of data center battles has pushed some in rural Alabama to rethink their core beliefs.

10/06/2026

CREEJ Data Center Research intern and Columbia University graduate student, Kailynn Williams, delivers a “did you know” analysis about the Colossus 1 data center located in Memphis, Tennessee. Research is the first step forward!

10/01/2026

JUST PUBLISHED: Are there rumblings of a data center coming to your community in Alabama? Do you want to have a voice in if or how they come to your community? Check out the new Data Center Toolkit for Alabama communities! Alabama Rivers Alliance, Black Warrior Riverkeeper, Coosa Riverkeeper, National Parks Conservation Association and SELC collaborated to bring communities this toolkit which includes: how to advocate against a data center, how to pass an ordinance, examples of commonsense guardrails to protect our water resources, and so much more.

Share with your neighbors and friends and let us know if we can help you learn more about a data center in your neighborhood!

10/01/2026

10/01/2026

https://prospect.org/2026/10/01/data-center-alabama-lowndes-county-black-belt-cloverleaf-infrastructure-project-red-clay/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=%22I%20Know%20I%20Couldn%20t%20Live%20Here%22&utm_campaign=Daily%20Prospect%2010-1-26

Faced with little transparency about a mammoth facility, Lowndes County fights back.