HAYNEVILLE, June 13 -- The proposed hyperscale data-centre campus that would, if built, become one of the largest single industrial loads in the southeastern United States is sited on 800 acres of rural Lowndes County, Alabama, about a mile from the Robert Gardner farm where civil rights marchers camped on the night of March 23, 1965, on the third evening of the Selma-to-Montgomery march. The project, named Project Red Clay and proposed by Cloverleaf Infrastructure, would require 1,500 megawatts of grid electricity - approximately the demand of half a million American homes - and up to 100,000 gallons of water a day from the Pintlala Water System, the local utility that serves a county more than 70 percent of whose residents are Black and...