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🌱 Hayneville neighbors to AI data center developers: “We don’t want you here”
Hayneville, Alabama Patch AM: a 4 min readMorning Hayneville! We've got the scoop on the latest happenings in town. Read on to get looped in. ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- Hayneville neighbors to AI data center developers: “We don’t want you here”
- Why a new data center worries Hayneville neighbors without working sewers
Today's riddle: What do sweet potatoes wear to bed? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Friday: Partly sunny, with a high of 93 and low of 73 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
- Saturday: A t-storm around in the p.m., temps: high: 92, low: 72.
- Sunday: Humid with a stray t-storm, with a high of 90 and low of 72 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• On the Historic Route From Selma to Montgomery, an AI Cloud Looms (insideclimatenews.org) — Hayneville residents are pushing back hard against a proposed 800‑acre AI data center campus along Highway 80, saying it threatens local water, power costs, and the area’s civil rights legacy. At a tense open house in a former Hayneville school, neighbors questioned developers’ promises of jobs and revenue, arguing that basic needs like safe sewage and drinking water should come before massive new industrial projects. 
• Rural Alabama Community Lacking Basic Sanitation Faces New Environmental Challenge from Proposed Data Center (envirolink.org) — Hayneville residents living along the Selma-to-Montgomery route are grappling with failing sewage systems while a massive data center is proposed nearby, raising fears of heavier strain on limited water and power. The piece frames Hayneville’s struggle as an environmental justice issue, warning that communities with the fewest resources often shoulder the biggest burdens from high‑demand industrial projects like data centers.
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Volleyball Kids Camp
Pike Road City Pike Road, AL 36064
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Soccer on Field
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Summer Library Program Grades 1-6 →
Wetumpka Civic Center, 410 S Main St, Wetumpka
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- Heavy Rainfall And Possible Flooding Beginning This Weekend
https://ema.alabama.gov/14573/heavy-rainfall-and-possible-flooding-beginning-this-weekend/ (Nextdoor ) - We want to hear from people in Alabama!
Your responses will help the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) do a better job for your community. Please take our survey! It only takes 10… (Nextdoor )
- Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores, Inc. posted a job opening for Retail Shift Leader in Hayneville. Apply here.
- The Fresh Market posted a job opening for In Stock Specialist in Montgomery. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Hayneville here.
🗞 Nearby News
Montgomery
- The Rundown: Batter Up, Paddle Out & Color On (wsfa.com)
- This Alabama Adventure Hub Lets You Brave Raging Whitewater Rapids Without Leaving The City (myfamilytravels.com)
- Opelika woman sentenced to over 11 years for sex trafficking scheme involving minor (wsfa.com)
Greenville
- Greenville police raid 4 businesses in illegal product crackdown (wsfa.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Yammies! (Thank you Lynda S. for sending it in!)
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