# Arkansas Data Centers Wiki — Index The entity roster for the investigation. Updated on every ingest. Status legend: - **seed** — surfaced from publicly-reported framings; not yet anchored to a raw document - **anchored** — verified against at least one raw document with location + verbatim quote - **published** — page exists in `wiki/` with full frontmatter and at least one citation As of 2026-05-26, Phase 1 (FOIA filing) is complete — nine FOIA requests were filed 2026-05-19, and two follow-on requests were filed 2026-05-22 (Little Rock Port Authority and Pulaski County government on AVAIO / Project Leo). A separate joint-addressee Arkansas FOIA on the Willowbend / Project Boar site was also filed 2026-05-22 to the Little Rock Port Authority and the City of Little Rock. **Eight productions are ingested**: the Crittenden County Assessor's Project Pyramid records, the Department of Agriculture's hyperscale data-center water records, Entergy Arkansas's base rate case (Docket 26-001-U) and Generating Arkansas Jobs Act rider docket (Docket 26-008-TF) — retrieved 2026-05-22 from the APSC e-filing system — Pulaski County government's AVAIO Project Leo planning file (2026-05-22), the Little Rock Port Authority's Project Boar production (2026-05-26), **the City of Conway's Project Stratus production (2026-05-26 evening)** — 303 files, ~177 MB, the first Tier-1 production from a City-of-Conway custodian, anchoring the [[Forgelight Ventures, LLC]] / [[The Conway Data Center Project|Conway data-center]] project's MOU, the [[Annexation Ordinance O-25-37 (Lollie Rd)|annexation]] and [[Rezone Ordinance O-25-39 and REZ-0425-0052|rezone]] ordinances, the [[Stratus Vesting Deed (Adams)|site parcel location]] (160-acre Adams Property at NE corner Lollie Rd & Donnell Ridge Rd), the [[April 2026 FAQ Project Stratus|1-GW build-out design]], and 226 constituent public-comment .msg files (204 unique by body) — and **Conway Corporation's Project Stratus utility production (2026-05-29)** — 26 records anchoring the [[Tupelo Bayou Treated-Effluent Cooling|treated-effluent cooling-water engineering]] ([[Black & Veatch]] / [[Garver]]), the project NDAs (including the developer-side [[Spark Innovations, LLC]] entity, whose name also appears at the confirmed-Google West Memphis site), the mid-2024 timeline, and [[Arkansas Economic Development Commission|AEDC's]] presence at the Oct 2024 site visit. The Governor's Office, the Pulaski County Assessor, and the Little Rock Port Authority on AVAIO returned substantive no-document responses. Conway Corporation's interim response (2026-05-22) was followed by its rolling production on 2026-05-29; City Clerk [[Denise Hurd]]'s 2026-05-29 clarification resolved the FOIA-2026-126 PLACEHOLDER questions. AEDC, APSC, DEE/DEQ, and DFA are past their statutory deadlines, with second-round escalations sent 2026-05-28 and no responses as of 2026-05-29. The City of Little Rock's Project Boar response is awaited through 2026-05-28. See `log.md`, `HANDOFF.md`, and `PLAN.md`. A wiki cleanup pass on 2026-05-24 fixed navigation gaps (Home → Synthesis link; "three additional hyperscale developers (TBD)" placeholder resolved), de-orphaned the [[Who Pays for Entergy's New Generation]] capstone synthesis (linked from 8 concept/org pages), added seed pages for [[Serverfarm]] and [[DC Devco]], created a [[README|synthesis index]], and updated stale "Phase C / Phase D / not yet ingested" markers across the Ironwood and Jefferson concept pages and the Cypress, 26-008-TF, and 26-001-U source overviews to reflect what the 2026-05-22 ingest actually covered. **2026-06-03 bring-current update (now current to 2026-06-03).** A multi-channel deep-research pass (Gmail FOIA + APSC docket portal + Tier-2/3 web research; harness at `_phase6_workdir/bring-current.mjs`) brought the wiki from its 2026-05-29 cutoff to June 3. **New Tier-1 production:** Pulaski County Planning & Development (Cranor) — [[development-applications-2026-06-02/_overview|development-applications production]] (5 source pages); its dispositive finding is a **negative** (AVAIO Project Leo is the *only* data-center site among 544 unincorporated-county site plans since 2024) plus a **provenance** find (an earlier Feb-2024 [[Coushatta Management, LLC]] data-center site plan at the same 145th St parcel; engineer [[Harbor Environmental]]). New entities: orgs [[Coushatta Management, LLC]], [[Harbor Environmental]]; people [[Pete Peterson]], [[Woodrow Martin]], [[Capi Peck]], [[Kathy Webb]], [[Tom Carpenter]]. **New events:** [[2024-02 Coushatta Management Files an Earlier 145th Street Data-Center Site Plan]]; [[2026-06 Pulaski County Planning and Development Produces Development-Application Records]]; [[2026-06 Entergy Files Response to APSC Order No. 6 (GAJA Rider)]] (Doc 76, 06-01 — GAJA/Ironwood merits ruling still pending); [[2026-06 State Data-Center FOIAs Miss Second-Escalation Deadline]] (AEDC/APSC/DEE-DEQ/DFA still silent); and the net-new [[2026-06 Little Rock City Board Adopts Data-Center Regulations Ordinance]] (unanimous, 06-02). **Substantive updates:** the Pulaski moratorium tally (Advocate 8-6-1 vs ADG 9-4-2 conflict) + planned refile + the **05-12 correction** to the five-measures referral date; [[T003 - Shell-LLC Principal Attribution for Forgelight and Willowbend|T003]] / [[Michael Montfort]] (the STLPR/KCUR multi-state Montfort/Thomas Google-LLC pattern — Tier-3, restraint held; **dialectic D006 run** — labeling-restraint upheld, pattern sharpened to a "documented multi-state Google-linked nominee apparatus", T003 → `bracketed`); [[Project Pulse]] / [[DC Devco]] (Clark County build appears stalled); [[Willowbend Capital, LLC]] (LR ordinance applies; Google public appearance). 12 web-archives under `web archive/2026-06-03/`. `check_wikilinks.py`: **375 pages, 0 unresolved.** **2026-06-03 (deed-pull pass).** A follow-on pass executed the HANDOFF's three carried-over tasks. **(1) Land records** — OCR'd the AVAIO ALTA survey and ran a Pulaski County recorded-deed search ([deed pull](web%20archive/2026-06-03/pulaskideeds.com/avaio-project-leo-deed-pull.md); five deeds archived as Tier-2): the **296-acre Project Leo campus traces to [[Arnett Construction Company]]** (assembled 2000–2024 from the Tucker/Fulbright interests) and **no recorded deed conveys it to AVAIO** (record title still in Arnett; AVAIO appears only as the ALTA-survey-certification party "AVAIO Digital Partners II, LLC"); **[[Coushatta Management, LLC]] did not sell to AVAIO** — Arnett *sold to Coushatta* a separate, adjoining **62.7-acre tract ($1.33M, 2024)** (common grantor, adjacent parcels); and a **net-new finding** — AVAIO's SPV **[[ADP Little Rock Green Compute, LLC]]** is assembling land *north* of the campus (Sections 13/14: a 32–52-year [[Bud Price Family Farms, LLC]] ground lease + an **$800K [[Matson Properties]] purchase**, [[2026-01 ADP Little Rock Green Compute Buys Land North of Project Leo|recorded 2026-01-02]]). **(2) OCR** — extracted the four USACE environmental binaries (site in the **Fish Creek watershed**; ~13,461 LF / 3.44 ac of jurisdictional RPW streams; "No Historic Properties Affected"; Gray-Bat foraging-habitat coordination flag; **cooling-water source still unnamed**), and fetched + OCR'd **Conway Ordinance [[Conway Data Center Noise Ordinance (O-23-55)|O-23-55]]** — whose recorded text corrects the wiki (an **emergency ordinance passed July 25, 2023**; a **two-tier 65 dBA-day / 55 dBA-night** limit; the half-mile notice is in O-23-55 itself). **(3) Wayback** — resolved 15 of 29 pending snapshots via the availability API (the remainder SPN-attempted, 429-limited; three AWS-WAF SoS pages + the session-bound deed portal remain N/A). `check_wikilinks.py`: **384 pages, 0 unresolved.** **2026-06-08 (DEE-DEQ permit-collection pass).** The Arkansas **Department of Energy & Environment / DEQ** answered the May-19/June-3 FOIA — the **first of the four silent state agencies** (AEDC/APSC/DEE-DEQ/DFA) to respond — with a **self-service pointer** to the **SEEK** and **PDS** databases (item-6 pre-permitting correspondence supplemental pending ≤06-11). Collected and ingested as [[deq/seek-pds-data-center-permits-2026-06-08/_overview|the DEE-DEQ production]] (58 Tier-1 records; zero re-productions). **Headline:** the [[Project Pyramid Title V Air Permit (2507-AOP-R0)|Project Pyramid (Google) Title V air permit]] (from PDS) — **238 diesel/HVO emergency engines (232 Tier 2 gensets), 60 cooling towers, roadway emissions** — the first Tier-1 measure of the West Memphis facility's scale; it confirms **wet cooling** but names no water source. **AVAIO/Leo has no air permit and no cooling-water record** (construction-stormwater only); the unnamed-Leo-cooling-source gap is **not** closed (see [[Identifying the Unnamed Cooling-Water Data Centers]]). **Corporate stack (Tier-1):** the Groot Delegation of Authority shows sole member [[GDH Holdings Inc.]] (officer [[Gabor Turschl]]) and confirms shell-officers [[Michael Montfort]] + [[David Thomas]] are **[[Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati]]** attorneys — answering the [[D005 Synthesis|D005]] professional-role question at Tier-1, but naming **no** hyperscaler principal of the Conway/Port shells, so [[T003 - Shell-LLC Principal Attribution for Forgelight and Willowbend|T003]] stays bracketed (no un-bracketing). New negatives: no SEEK/PDS footprint for Conway/Forgelight, Port/Willowbend, or DC Devco/Pulse; [[Serverfarm]] SF ARK1 is a SEEK "Complaint Site" with no permits. **2026-06-04 connector-hardening pass (Tier-2/3 corroboration).** A main-loop pass routed the newly-connected research connectors (SEC EDGAR, LegiScan, USGS Water, EPA Envirofacts, GovInfo, CourtListener, Firecrawl) into the wiki under the contamination firewall. **Cost-shift:** [[Who Pays for Entergy's New Generation]] gained a Tier-2 Section VIII — Entergy's FY2025 10-K data-center risk factor ("new generation and transmission assets to support large-scale data centers ... depends on a limited number of such customers") and the **$5.97B → $8.21B** Utility capex jump (2024→2025); the Act 373 (SB 307) and Act 548 (HB 1444) sponsors and roll-calls (GAJA **failed its first Senate vote 17-11**; Sen. Jonathan Dismang sponsored **both** acts); and *Entergy Arkansas, LLC v. Doyle Webb*, 122 F.4th 705 (8th Cir. 2024) (the APSC may decline to pass costs to ratepayers — same commissioners Webb/Anderson/Tate). New concept [[Large-Load Cost-Allocation Comparators]] (Kentucky EKPC DCP tariff + HB 593 "pay their own way"). [[Act 548 (2025)]], [[Generating Arkansas Jobs Act (GAJA) rider]], and [[Entergy Arkansas]] updated. **Water:** [[Tupelo Bayou Treated-Effluent Cooling]] (EPA FRS 110043640432 confirmed; NPDES AR0051951 DMR retrieval an open gap — ECHO rate-limited), [[Sparta Aquifer]] (USGS Faulkner monitoring network; multi-year drawdown an open gap), and [[Nationwide Permit]] (current Corps reissuance FR-2026-01-08) updated; the Project Leo cooling-water source remains unnamed. **Attribution (restraint held):** a CourtListener + SEC EDGAR sweep found **no Tier-1 channel naming the Forgelight/Willowbend/Spark/AVAIO/GROOT principal** (only unrelated entities) — recorded on [[T003 - Shell-LLC Principal Attribution for Forgelight and Willowbend|T003]]; status unchanged (`bracketed-because-no-Tier-1-channel-names-the-principal`); [[D006 Synthesis]] untouched. **Monitors:** a CourtListener weekly RECAP alert (#19677) was set on the shell cluster, and the GDELT watch query was expanded (Montfort/GROOT/Spark) and verified working. 11 web-archives landed under `web archive/2026-06-04/` (SEC ×2, arkleg ×4, CourtListener, GovInfo, EPA/USGS, EKPC, LPM); most Wayback SPN saves timed out (retry backlog). `check_wikilinks.py`: **385 pages, 0 unresolved.** **2026-06-10 (Order No. 7 ingest — T002 resolved).** A live APSC docket sweep found the GAJA merits ruling the wiki had been waiting on: **[[Order No. 7 Approving the GAJA Annual Update|Order No. 7]] (Doc. 77, 2026-06-04)** approves Entergy's first GAJA annual update at a revised **$109,977,691** (Staff's $463K correction the only reduction), **finds [[Ironwood]] "qualifies as a strategic investment under § 23-4-1303(10)"** — resolving [[T002 - Ironwood Strategic Investment Designation Requirement|T002]] (`bracketed-because-Commission-ruling-pending` → `resolved-via-Order-No-7`) and keeping the contested ~$33.9M in the rider — and holds Act 373 gives the Commission no authority over EAL's capital structure ("the Commission shares the concerns of Mr. Meyer" but § 23-4-1304(m) controls). Also ingested: the [[Revised GAJA Rider Rate Schedule 73|revised Rate Schedule 73]] (Doc. 78 — Residential $0.00574/kWh = $5.74/mo; SRC customers reached only via the LGS class $1.21/kW) and [[Staff Compliance Testimony on the Revised GAJA Rider|Herring's compliance verification]] (Doc. 79); and in the base rate case, [[Staff Motion to Adopt Rate-Case Procedural Schedule|Staff's procedural-schedule motion]] (26-001-U Doc. 160) putting Staff/Intervenor direct at **8/5**, public comment hearings at **Batesville 10/20** and **El Dorado 10/27**, and the evidentiary hearing at **11/4–5/2026**. Gmail check: no DEE-DEQ item-6 supplemental yet (due ≤06-11); AEDC/APSC/DFA still silent past the § 25-19-107 final-demand window. Two new events: [[2026-06 APSC Order No. 7 Approves the GAJA Rider Annual Update]], [[2026-06 Staff Proposes November Hearing Schedule in the Rate Case]]. **2026-06-11 (the Google-SRC discovery + the June bring-current).** A live-docket re-check exposed a propagated currency error: **Docket 25-055-P reached final decision before the FOIA campaign began** — REDACTED **Order No. 9 (2025-12-04)** approved the Google SRC without modification but **denied** the Staff–EAL payment treatment ("benefit EAL and Google, not EAL's other customers ... customers would benefit from having these contributions treated as a CIAC"), and **Order No. 11 (2026-01-29)** forced a **life-of-Cypress amortization**, granted the ITC treatment **non-precedentially** ("this deal was presented as a fait accompli"; EAL "shall not contract away ratemaking treatments that are clearly within the province of the Commission"), with sealed compliance schedules filed 2026-02-05. [[T001 - CIAC Classification of Google Generation Payments|T001]] → **`resolved-via-Order-No-9-and-Order-No-11`**; root cause (truncated 2026-05-22 docket capture, diffed-against by later passes) logged. The Tier-2/3 bring-current also landed: the **June 9 Quorum Court 8–5 postponement** of the [[Wendell Griffen]]-drafted threshold moratorium (→ July 14; expert special meeting; [[Jack Thomas]]/Chamber lobbying; renewed [[Hamilton Kemp]] letter); **Google's invitation-only June 10 meeting** + its project site's first-person April-2026 land-purchase claim (T003 new input, **flagged for review, status unchanged**); the **West Memphis $60B Act 9 bond cap / 65% PILOT** (the Conway template's figure-for-figure twin) with the gray-water cooling statement and 2026 ag-reclassification; **Conway's Phase 2 mandatory water curtailment** (from 06-01); AVAIO's website disclosure of an **executed Entergy ESA (150 MW, April 2027; 1.1 GW by 2030)** that appears in no public docket; the June 23 Planning Board agenda posting **without** the five referred measures; and the Clarksville citizen meeting set for July 13. Four new events + two retroactive events; archives under `web archive/2026-06-11/`. **2026-06-12 (the item-6 supplemental ingest).** DEE/DEQ delivered the promised **item-6 pre-permitting correspondence supplemental on deadline day** (2026-06-11 16:36 CDT, SharePoint folder; 78 files ≈204 MB; 7 byte-identical re-productions of the 06-08 set; ingested as [[deq/pre-permitting-correspondence-2026-06-11/_overview|the pre-permitting-correspondence production]], 7 source pages). **Headline:** [[AVAIO Tier 4 Equivalent Email to the Commerce Secretary|AVAIO's "Private and Confidential" email to Commerce Secretary Hugh McDonald]] (2026-03-03, forwarded to E&E Secretary [[Shane Khoury]] → [[Demetria Kimbrough]] within 48 hours) documents at Tier 1 the **executed Entergy ESA's terms** — "a mandatory curtailment provision on a temporary basis for up to 150h per year"; "**Without this provision, Entergy would not have supplied any power**"; curtailment as MISO LMR Type 1 until [[Ironwood]] (Nov 2028), then EEA-2 until [[Jefferson Power Station]] (Dec 2029) — and the Leo backup fleet: **62 × 3 MW (≈186 MW) for a 150 MW grid connection**, Tier 2-certified Cummins QSK78 engines with Miratech SCR/DPF ("Tier 4 equivalent"), with AVAIO asking the state to count ESA curtailment as a Subpart IIII "emergency." Also: the [[2025-10 DEQ Pre-Application Meeting with AVAIO|10/30/25 pre-app record]]; the [[ADP Rankin Data Hub Mississippi Air Permit Application|Mississippi template application]] ([[Joe Hubbard]], EVP, Responsible Official; 50 × 3 MW; PSD-avoidance synthetic minor); the [[Groot Air Permit Pre-Draft Correspondence|Groot pre-draft file]] (DEQ: "That disclosure still does not list anyone as officers or owners of Groot LLC"; a self-signed delegation letter rejected; engine "sizes, and what they power are only in the confidential application"; **[[David Essex]] of google.com CC'd throughout**); the [[Project Boar CWA 401 Pre-File and Application|Project Boar § 401 track]] (Willowbend certifies "primary management and ultimate decision-making responsibility"; described only as a "**light industrial complex**"; Individual § 404 SWL-2026-00038; 15.10 ac wetlands); and the [[Project Pyramid USACE Public Notice and Water Quality Track|Pyramid water file]] (PN MVM-2024-216 — "data center campus consisting of five large-scale data center buildings"; applicant "Attn: [[Stuart C Hindmarsh]]"; the [[2024-10 AEDC Convenes the Project Pyramid Pre-Permitting Introduction|AEDC "Project Acorn" introduction]] with the do-not-share instruction). **Hyperscaler-principal sweep: no record names Google or any hyperscaler as principal of Forgelight/Willowbend/Spark — [[T003 - Shell-LLC Principal Attribution for Forgelight and Willowbend|T003]] restraint holds** (new-input section added, status unchanged). New people ×10, orgs ×5, events ×3. ## People - [[Demetria Kimbrough]] (published) — Deputy Director, DEQ Office of Air Quality; central state figure in the AVAIO air pre-permitting record. - [[Melody Neil]] (published) — AVAIO Public Affairs Lead; author of the Commerce-Secretary "Tier IV equivalent" email. - [[Hugh McDonald]] (published) — "Secretary McDonald" (Commerce); relayed AVAIO's request to E&E; public role/Entergy history pending Tier-2 archive. - [[Shane Khoury]] (published) — Secretary, Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment. - [[Joe Hubbard]] (published) — AVAIO "Executive VP - Global Design & Delivery"; Responsible Official on the Mississippi Rankin application. - [[Kevin Murphy]] (published) — AVAIO VP; Incorporator/Organizer and Managing Member of ADP Little Rock Data Hub, LLC. - [[Mark Allison]] (published) — Wright Lindsey & Jennings attorney; AVAIO's Arkansas regulatory counsel. - [[David Essex]] (published) — Google employee CC'd through Groot's air-permit pre-draft review. - [[Shawn Hutchings]] (published) — DEQ air-permit engineer on 2507-AOP-R0; pressed the Groot disclosure-statement question. - [[Jim Wise]] (published) — DEQ Water Quality Ecologist Supervisor; § 401 reviewer on both Boar and Pyramid. - [[David Thomas]] (published) — Wilson Sonsini attorney; Authorized Signatory/organizer on Groot and Spark; co-officer with Montfort across the Google-data-center shells (Tier-1 firm affiliation confirmed 2026-06-08). - [[Gabor Turschl]] (published) — President/Treasurer/Secretary of [[GDH Holdings Inc.]], the sole member of [[GROOT LLC]] (per the Groot Delegation of Authority). - [[Kim Hollowell]] (published) — Crittenden County Assessor; produced the first FOIA records. - [[Stuart C Hindmarsh]] (published) — contact of record for GROOT LLC. - [[Joshua Dunlap]] (published) — FOIA requester; wiki compiler. - [[Pete Hornibrook]] (published) — Chief Administrator–Real Property, Pulaski County Assessor's Office. - [[Kylee Horst]] (published) — FOIA correspondent, Arkansas Department of Agriculture. - [[Katie Hartter]] (published) — Water Use Program Coordinator, Arkansas Department of Agriculture; processed the Google Data Center registration. - [[Tyson Schlect]] (published) — INFRA science & engineering; filed the Google / Project Pyramid water registration. - [[Elai Fresco]] (published) — Arup; led a confidential data-center water due-diligence inquiry. - [[Bryan Day]] (published) — Executive Director, Little Rock Port Authority. - [[Clay McGeorge]] (published) — Chair, Little Rock Port Authority Board of Directors. - [[Frank Scott Jr]] (published) — Mayor of the City of Little Rock; signed the Project Boar deed. - [[Laura R. Landreaux]] (published) — President and CEO, Entergy Arkansas; lead witness in the base rate case. - [[Matthew S. Klucher]] (published) — Entergy rate witness; sponsors the Class Cost of Service Study in Docket 26-001-U. - [[Caroline McNeal]] (published) — Entergy rate witness; catalogs the proposed tariff changes in Docket 26-001-U. - [[Matthew R. Morey]] (published) — Entergy witness; sponsors the GAJA rider 2026 annual update. - [[J. David Palmer]] (published) — Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, Entergy Arkansas. - [[Mark Herring]] (published) — APSC General Staff analyst; contested the GAJA rider. - [[Greg R. Meyer]] (published) — the Attorney General's witness against the GAJA rider. - [[N. Wesley Hunt]] (published) — APSC Administrative Law Judge; suspended Entergy's proposed rates. - [[Jim Cranor]] (published) — Plan Review Coordinator, Pulaski County Planning & Development; lead county reviewer of Project Leo. - [[Van McClendon]] (published) — Director, Pulaski County Planning & Development. - [[Brianna Covington]] (published) — Kimley-Horn; project engineer of record for AVAIO Project Leo. - [[Tom Nesel]] (published) — principal, AVAIO Capital; Owner's Construction Manager for Project Leo. - [[Chris Odom]] (published) — Regulatory and Risk Management Director, Conway Corporation; sent the utility's interim FOIA response. - [[Bart Castleberry]] (published) — Mayor of the City of Conway; signed all three Project Stratus ordinances; his Office issued the FOIA-2026-126 / FOIA-2026-129 cover letter. - [[Denise Hurd]] (published) — City Clerk/Treasurer, City of Conway; signed the FOIA-2026-126 "no-records" letter on Item 4. - [[Charles Finkenbinder]] (published) — City Attorney, City of Conway. - [[Felicia Rogers]] (published) — Chief of Staff, Office of the Mayor, City of Conway; the City Hall conduit for Project Stratus correspondence. - [[Andy Hawkins]] (published) — Conway City Councilman; moved the MOU adoption April 1, 2025; chaired the April 22, 2025 Council meeting; dual `conwaycorp.net` email suggests Conway Corp affiliation. - [[Shelia Isby]] (published) — Conway City Councilwoman; moved adoption of O-25-39 (rezone). - [[Shelley Mehl]] (published) — Conway City Councilwoman; seconded the MOU motion; dual `conwaycorp.net` email suggests Conway Corp affiliation. - [[Anne Tucker]] (published) — Planning Department staff, City of Conway; presenter to City Council on the Project Stratus rezone and annexation. - [[Lauren Hoffman]] (published) — Planning Department staff, City of Conway; author of a draft Conway data-center notice ordinance. - [[Ryan Robeson]] (published) — Planning Department staff, City of Conway; case owner on the three Project Stratus cases. - [[Rebecca Alexander]] (published) — Planning Department staff, City of Conway. - [[Kurt Jones]] (published) — Transportation Department engineer P.E., City of Conway; City-side counterparty for EMH&T on Project Stratus stormwater. - [[Brett Carroll]] (published) — Chief Executive Officer, Conway Corporation (title confirmed by the 2026-05-29 production); accepted the earliest (2024-06-21) Project Stratus meeting; addressed City Council on grey-water reuse. - [[Jamie Gates]] (published) — Conway Area Chamber of Commerce / Conway Development Corporation; primary developer-side spokesperson to City Council on Project Stratus. - [[Brad Lacy]] (published) — Conway Area Chamber of Commerce; presented the Project Stratus MOU to Council April 1, 2025. - [[Corey Parks]] (published) — Chief Economic Development Officer, Conway Development Corporation / Conway Area Chamber of Commerce; primary developer-side coordinator on Project Stratus operational matters. - [[Jenifer Kendrick]] (published) — General Counsel, Conway Development Corporation; applicant of record on the REZ-0425-0052 rezone; attended the Oct 2024 Project Stratus utilities site visit. - [[Mark Ferguson]] (published) — Water Systems Senior Engineer, Conway Corporation; primary engineering POC on Project Stratus (NDAs, Black & Veatch effluent evaluation). - [[Erin Brown]] (published) — Chief Financial Officer, Conway Corporation; finance-side contact with Black & Veatch. - [[Brett McDaniel]] (published) — Conway Corporation; reviewed the Project Stratus Reimbursement Agreement and "Stratus contract." - [[Zach Gardner]] (published) — Environmental Coordinator, Conway Corporation; signed a [[Spark Innovations, LLC]] NDA to join Project Stratus. - [[Raven Johnson]] (published) — Project Manager, [[Arkansas Economic Development Commission]]; attended the Oct 2, 2024 Project Stratus utilities site visit — the corpus's first Tier-1 AEDC–Stratus link. - [[Alan Rice]] (published) — public-hearing opponent at the April 21 PC and April 22 City Council meetings on the Project Stratus rezone; spoke on behalf of his son. - [[Jeremy Rice]] (published) — adjacent landowner; most-prolific named constituent opponent of Project Stratus in the corpus. - [[Jay Winbourne]] (published) — Conway Planning Commission member who voted to recommend Project Stratus in April 2025; filed his own Arkansas FOIA on the project (FOIA-2026-118) on May 18, 2026, the day before Joshua Dunlap's parallel filing. - [[Michael Montfort]] (published) — Delaware-shell organizer of record for [[Forgelight Ventures, LLC]]; reporting ties his data-center shell LLCs to Google. - [[Doyle Webb]] (published) — Chairman, Arkansas Public Service Commission. - [[Justin Tate]] (published) — Commissioner, Arkansas Public Service Commission. - [[Katie Anderson]] (published) — Commissioner, Arkansas Public Service Commission. - [[Karen Shook]] (published) — Secretary, Arkansas Public Service Commission. - [[Bridgette M. Frazier]] (published) — APSC Administrative Law Judge; presided over the Ironwood / LC5 CECPN docket. - [[John P. Bethel]] (published) — Director, Public Affairs, Entergy Arkansas; sponsored the JPS industrial-load-growth testimony. - [[Kandice Fielder]] (published) — Senior Manager, Resource Planning, Entergy Arkansas; sponsors the 2024 IRP and the sealed Table 1 across all three CECPN dockets. - **APSC rate-case / CECPN / SRC witnesses** (published; anchored 2026-05-29) — the testimony sponsors across Dockets 26-001-U, 26-008-TF, the three CECPNs (24-072-U, 25-047-U, 25-054-U), and the SRC/large-power dockets (25-055-P, 23-025-P, 22-032-TF): Entergy — [[Dane A. Watson]] (depreciation), [[Adrien M. McKenzie]] (ROE), [[Amy L. Morris]] (capital additions), [[Sarah Harcus]] (pro forma), [[Jay A. Lewis]] (test year), [[Jana K. Law]] (Senior Counsel), [[Kristin Dalrymple]] (Cypress/SRC), [[Crystal K. Elbe]] (SRC rate design/RIM), [[David E. Hunt]] (CIAC), [[Patrick J. Stack]] (accounting/ITC), [[Carlos Ruiz]] (Ironwood/Jefferson), [[Brad T. Cullipher]] (transmission planning), [[Robert J. Fluth]] (Cypress), [[Michael T. Milton]] (Cypress), [[William J. Cunningham]] (Ironwood), [[John D. Schwegler]] (LPHLDS), [[Bradley J. Phillips]] (Alliance Technical Group); APSC Staff — [[Mark Burdette]], [[Jeffrey D. Bower]] (Daymark), [[Thomas A. Martin]], [[Regina L. Butler]]; intervenors — [[Scott Norwood]] (AG / Norwood Energy), [[Billie S. LaConte]] (AEEC), [[Elizabeth A. Stanton, PhD]] (AEEC), [[Simon Mahan]] (SREA). - Sarah Huckabee Sanders (seed) — Governor of Arkansas; signed the Generating Arkansas Jobs Act (Act 373 of 2025). - Hugh McDonald (seed) — Secretary, Arkansas Department of Commerce / AEDC context. - [[Adrianne Larison]] (published) — Active FOIA contact, Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration; identified via Janis Bartlett's 2026-05-22 auto-reply. - [[Scott Hardin]] (published) — DFA staffer on the `[email protected]` shared mailbox; OOO auto-reply 2026-05-28 offered cell `501-352-9351` for deadline-pressing matters. - [[Janis Bartlett]] (published) — Retired DFA staffer; her mailbox auto-reply nominated [[Adrianne Larison]] as successor on FOIA. - [[Barry Hyde]] (published) — Pulaski County Judge (lame duck through 2026-12-31; lost 2026-03-03 Democratic primary to [[Wendell Griffen]]); chairs the Quorum Court. - [[Wendell Griffen]] (published) — retired circuit judge; 2026 Democratic nominee for Pulaski County Judge (won the 3/3 primary over Hyde; faces Republican Michael Rushin in the Nov. general; would take office 2027-01-01 if elected); **NOT and never was a JP** (disambiguation page). - [[Terri Hollingsworth]] (published) — Pulaski Circuit and County Clerk; custodian for QC certified minutes and roll-call sheets; issued the 2026-05-28 correction notice on the contested data-center moratorium vote and produced the #26-341 records 2026-05-29. - [[Hamilton Kemp]] (published) — Pulaski County Attorney; county FOIA custodian; authored the 2026-05-27 memo refusing to sign the moratorium ordinance on Arkansas Data Centers Act grounds. - [[Justin Blagg]] (published) — Director of Quorum Court Services / Parliamentarian, Pulaski County; transmitted the May packet and the late-item memo; his review of the meeting recording produced the corrected moratorium tally. - [[Rebekah L. Davis]] (published) — JP, Pulaski County Quorum Court, District 1; Budget Committee; **lead sponsor (with Ward) of the data-center moratorium ordinance 26-I-37**. - [[Natalie Capps]] (published) — JP, District 2; Budget Committee. - [[Kathy Lewison]] (published) — JP, District 3; Agenda Committee; current tenure since 2009 (prior 2003–2006). - [[Julie Blackwood]] (published) — JP, District 4; Agenda Committee; institutional `@pulaskicounty.net` email. - [[Steven Person]] (published) — JP, District 5; Agenda Committee; running for Arkansas state House D77 in November 2026. - [[Donna Massey]] (published) — JP, District 6; **Budget Committee Chair;** longest current tenure (since 1999); recorded floor remarks at the 2026-05-26 moratorium vote. - [[Dianne Curry]] (published) — JP, District 7; Agenda Committee. - [[Curtis A. Keith]] (published) — JP, District 8; **Agenda Committee Chair** + Budget Committee. - [[Tina Ward]] (published) — JP, District 9; Agenda Committee; district includes the Project Boar site at the Little Rock Port. - [[Patricia Young-Baker]] (published) — JP, District 10; Agenda Committee. - [[Aaron Robinson]] (published) — JP, District 11; Budget + Agenda Committees. - [[Luke McCoy]] (published) — JP, District 12; **Budget Committee Vice Chair** + Agenda Committee; institutional `@pulaskicounty.net` email. - [[Phil Stowers]] (published) — JP, District 13; **Agenda Committee Vice Chair** + Budget Committee; offered the AVAIO-grandfathering floor amendment at the 2026-05-26 moratorium vote. - [[Paul Elliott]] (published) — JP, District 14; Agenda Committee. - [[Staci Medlock]] (published) — JP, District 15; Budget + Agenda Committees. - [[Pulaski County Quorum Court Directory]] (published) — quick-reference landing page for all 15 JPs (table + per-district detail); anchors every JP's roll-call gap on the contested 2026-05-26 data-center moratorium vote. - [[Jack Thomas]] (published) — SVP of Economic Development, Little Rock Regional Chamber; argued against the refiled moratorium at the 2026-06-09 Quorum Court meeting. - [[Pete Peterson]] (published) — [[Coushatta Management, LLC]] contact of record (`[email protected]`) on the 2024 145th Street data-center site-plan submission. - [[Woodrow Martin]] (published) — Director of Engineering, [[Harbor Environmental]]; engineer of record who shepherded the Coushatta 145th Street site plan through Pulaski County administrative review. - [[Capi Peck]] (published) — Little Rock City Director; co-authored (with [[Kathy Webb]]) the 2026-05-31 op-ed calling for a data-center moratorium ahead of the 2026-06-02 regulations vote. - [[Kathy Webb]] (published) — Little Rock City Director; co-author of the 2026-05-31 moratorium op-ed arguing the city's 2025 handling of the Google port project "was flawed." - [[Tom Carpenter]] (published) — Little Rock City Attorney; advised the Board at the 2026-06-02 meeting that Act 851 of 2023 prevents the city from banning data centers. ## Organizations - [[Trinity Consultants]] (published) — AVAIO's air consultant on both the Mississippi Rankin application and the (unfiled) Project Leo permit. - [[Wright Lindsey & Jennings LLP]] (published) — Little Rock firm; AVAIO's Arkansas regulatory counsel ([[Mark Allison]]). - [[Olsson]] (published) — Groot's air-permit consultant on 2507-AOP-R0 (Jim Timmons, Cassie Johnson). - [[Tioga Environmental Consultants]] (published) — Groot's § 404 agent on USACE public notice MVM-2024-216. - [[ADP Rankin Data Hub, LLC]] (published) — AVAIO's Mississippi SPV (Brandon, Rankin County); the "Tier IV equivalent" precedent site. - [[Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment]] (published) — DEE/DEQ; state environmental regulator and FOIA custodian (responded 2026-06-08 via SEEK/PDS self-service); issued the Project Pyramid Title V air permit. - [[GDH Holdings Inc.]] (published) — Delaware corporation; sole member of [[GROOT LLC]] (per the Groot Delegation of Authority). Recorded as documented; no inference to Google or the other shells. - [[Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati]] (published) — national tech law firm; the firm of record for shell-officers [[Michael Montfort]] and [[David Thomas]] (Tier-1 confirmation of their professional role; vindicates T003 restraint). - [[Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration]] (published) — Act 548 tax-exemption administrator; FOIA'd 2026-05-19, silent past the § 25-19-107 final-demand window; people [[Adrianne Larison]], [[Scott Hardin]], [[Janis Bartlett]]. - [[Arkansas Electric Energy Consumers, Inc.]] (published) — industrial-customer intervenor in the Entergy dockets (Ironwood, Jefferson; petition pending in 26-001-U); witnesses [[Billie S. LaConte]], [[Elizabeth A. Stanton, PhD]]. - [[Southern Renewable Energy Association]] (published) — renewable-energy intervenor; limited intervention in 25-047-U; petition pending in 26-001-U; ED [[Simon Mahan]]. - [[GROOT LLC]] (published) — land-assembly entity for the Project Pyramid site. - [[Crittenden County Assessor's Office]] (published) — producing agency of the first FOIA production. - [[City of West Memphis]] (published) — current owner of record of the Project Pyramid site. - [[Bollinger Bros Inc]] (published) — prior agricultural owner / seller of the site. - [[Entergy Arkansas]] (published) — utility; files the base rate case and the GAJA rider, and holds the data-center electric service agreements. - [[Office of the Governor of Arkansas]] (published) — withheld all records under § 25-19-105(b)(7). - [[Pulaski County Assessor's Office]] (published) — two no-document responses; declined the location-based parcel search. - [[Pulaski County Government]] (published) — produced the AVAIO Project Leo planning file; its only review of the project was administrative site plan review. - [[Arkansas Department of Agriculture]] (published) — produced the hyperscale data-center water records. - [[Google LLC]] (published) — the Bollinger Road / Project Pyramid data center; served via subsidiary Altitude Capital, LLC. - [[ADP Little Rock Green Compute, LLC]] (published) — AVAIO SPV (Stamford, CT) assembling land north of the Project Leo campus (Sections 13/14); lessee of the Bud Price ground lease and grantee of the Matson purchase. - [[Matson Properties]] (published) — Arkansas general partnership; campus north-boundary adjoiner; sold ~40 acres to ADP Little Rock Green Compute for $800K (2026-01-02). - [[Bud Price Family Farms, LLC]] (published) — Arkansas LLC; ground-leased ~370 acres in Sections 13/14 to ADP Little Rock Green Compute (32–52-yr term). - [[McClelland Consulting Engineers]] (published) — engineer for an unnamed data center planning a 4.32 MGD Sparta Aquifer withdrawal. - [[Arup]] (published) — engineer for a confidential data-center water due-diligence inquiry. - [[INFRA science & engineering]] (published) — engineer that filed the Google / Project Pyramid water registration. - [[Little Rock Port Authority]] (published) — disclaimed any involvement in the AVAIO / Project Leo project. - [[Arkansas Public Service Commission]] (published) — regulator of Entergy Arkansas; forum for Dockets 26-001-U and 26-008-TF; FOIA filed 2026-05-19, unanswered. - [[APSC General Staff]] (published) — the Commission's in-house staff; a party contesting both Entergy dockets. - [[Office of the Arkansas Attorney General]] (published) — ratepayer advocate; contested the GAJA rider. - [[Altitude Capital, LLC]] (published) — Google's subsidiary; counterparty to the West Memphis data center's electric service agreement. - [[AVAIO Digital Partners]] (published) — developer of the "Project Leo" data center in Pulaski County (~$21B / 1 GW); anchors the former "AVAIO Digital" seed. - [[ADP Little Rock Data Hub, LLC]] (published) — AVAIO project entity; named operator on the Project Leo construction-stormwater permit. - [[Kimley-Horn]] (published) — civil engineer of record for AVAIO Project Leo. - [[Stantec]] (published) — environmental consultant; prepared the Project Leo federal Clean Water Act permitting. - [[Arnett Construction Company]] (published) — Cabot, AR firm holding land within the Project Leo site; revoked the Vesta Addition plat. - [[Coushatta Management, LLC]] (published) — applicant of record on the earliest (Feb 2024) 145th Street data-center site plan; holds a separate 62.7-acre Arnett-derived tract adjoining the AVAIO campus. - [[Harbor Environmental]] (published) — Little Rock environmental/engineering firm; engineer of record for the Coushatta 145th Street site plan (distinct from AVAIO's [[Kimley-Horn]]). - [[U.S. Army Corps of Engineers]] (published) — federal Clean Water Act Section 404 permitting authority for the Project Leo stream crossings. - [[City of Conway]] (published) — host municipality of the Project Stratus / Conway data-center project; its City Council approved the project MOU 8-0 on 2025-04-01 and adopted the annexation and rezone ordinances 8-0 on 2025-04-22; produced 303-file FOIA-2026-126 response 2026-05-26. - [[Conway Corporation]] (published) — Conway's municipal electric/water/wastewater/broadband utility; gave an interim FOIA response and is a party to the Conway data-center MOU; owns a small carved-out parcel within the rezone footprint. - [[Conway Development Corporation]] (published) — Conway's nonprofit economic-development corporation; primary developer-side coordinator on Project Stratus; holds adjacent parcels flanking the Adams Property rezone (DB 2003 P 20243; DB 2012 P 1063). - [[Conway Area Chamber of Commerce]] (published) — Conway's business-membership organization; paired with CDC; presented the MOU to Council. - [[The Conway Foundation]] (published) — 501(c)(3) nonprofit; one of four signatories to the Project Stratus MOU; recipient of the annual Regional Investment Contribution from Forgelight. - [[Conway Planning Commission]] (published) — Conway's land-use advisory body; recommended the Project Stratus annexation and rezone unanimously on April 21, 2025. - [[Forgelight Ventures, LLC]] (published) — developer of the Project Stratus / Conway data-center project; a Delaware shell organized by [[Michael Montfort]]; principal unidentified per [[T003 - Shell-LLC Principal Attribution for Forgelight and Willowbend|T003]] / [[D003 Synthesis]]. The May 26 2026 City of Conway production adds [[EMH&T]] as a Tier-1 shared-engineer channel with [[Willowbend Capital, LLC|Willowbend]]. - [[Willowbend Capital, LLC]] (published) — developer of the Port of Little Rock "Project Boar" data center; a Delaware shell organized by [[Michael Montfort]], reported to be Google's. - [[Veritext Court Reporting]] (published) — court-reporting agency; filed the hearing-transcript public notice in Docket 26-008-TF. - [[Hybar LLC]] (published) — steel mini-mill in Osceola; counterparty to the most-recent prior-art Special Rate Contract before the Altitude Capital SRC. - [[Arkansas Economic Development Commission]] (published) — state economic-development agency; partner with EAL's economic-development team in attracting hyperscale customers; AEDC's [[Raven Johnson]] attended the Oct 2024 Project Stratus utilities site visit (the corpus's first Tier-1 AEDC–Stratus link); the AEDC FOIA remains outstanding as of 2026-05-29. - [[Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce]] (anchored) — named by Bryan Day as a party that worked Project Leo (2026-05-22) and as the NDA-of-record holder on Project Boar (2026-05-26); reviewed the Willowbend Purchase Agreement jointly with the Port Authority. - [[City of Little Rock]] (published) — municipal government; formal grantor of the Project Boar land on behalf of the Port Authority. - [[Kutak Rock LLP]] (published) — Rogers, AR law firm; counsel of record on both Project Pyramid (GROOT LLC) and Project Boar (Willowbend Capital). - [[EMH&T]] (published) — Columbus, OH civil engineering firm; engineering client of the Project Boar site survey; **also Project Stratus's site-civil engineer of record** (per the 2026-05-26 City of Conway production) — second Tier-1 correspondence-based shared-vendor channel between Forgelight (Conway) and Willowbend (Port of Little Rock). - [[Pickering Firm]] (published) — Memphis, TN civil engineering and surveying firm; surveyor of record for Project Boar. - [[Black & Veatch]] (published) — global engineering firm (Overland Park, KS); effluent-cooling engineer of record for Project Stratus; produced the April 2026 Final Engineering Report. Executed an NDA with Conway Corporation. - [[Garver]] (published) — Arkansas-based engineering firm; performed the early (2024) Project Stratus water/wastewater scoping for Conway Corporation. - [[Spark Innovations, LLC]] (published, confidence: low) — a **third [[Michael Montfort]]-managed Delaware shell** (AR filing 811524872, registered 2024-11-25; SoS-verified 2026-05-29 — same CSC agent and Wilmington DE mailbox building as Forgelight and Willowbend). Named on the Conway Project Stratus staff NDAs (Tier-1) and reported (Tier-3) as an early affiliate of the confirmed-Google West Memphis / [[GROOT LLC]] / Project Pyramid site. Ties the Conway developer ecosystem into the Montfort cluster via a second entity (besides Forgelight). Dialectic [[D005 Synthesis|D005]] (2026-05-29) reaffirmed restraint: a stronger Tier-2 structural link, **not** an identification of the Conway principal. - Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration (DFA) (seed) — FOIA filed 2026-05-19; no response yet. - [[Serverfarm]] (seed) — developer of an announced Clarksville (Johnson County) data-center campus; operating entity SF ARK1 LLC. No FOIA production or APSC docket has yet returned records. - [[DC Devco]] (seed) — developer of the [[Project Pulse]] campus on the Gum Springs (Clark County) mega-site; CWIP transmission line items in Schedule B-8 of Docket 26-001-U Doc. 47. - Entergy Corporation (seed) — parent of [[Entergy Arkansas]]; applicant context for APSC Docket 26-001-U. - Arkansas General Assembly (seed) — Act 548 of 2025; Act 373 of 2025 (the Generating Arkansas Jobs Act). ## Concepts - [[Agricultural Use Classification]] (published) — agricultural use-value assessment, reclassification, and rollback tax. - [[Water-Use Registration]] (published) — the water-withdrawal registration regime and the Water Plan Compliance gap for privately owned wells. - [[Sparta Aquifer]] (published) — a principal Arkansas groundwater source; the planned cooling-water source for the unidentified McClelland data-center project. - [[Cost-of-service study]] (published) — how a utility allocates its revenue requirement across customer classes; anchored to Docket 26-001-U. - [[Generating Arkansas Jobs Act (GAJA) rider]] (published) — the mechanism recovering new-generation cost from all retail customers; anchored to Docket 26-008-TF. - [[Strategic Investment]] (published) — the statutory category (§ 23-4-1303(10)(A)/(B)(i)) eligible for GAJA Rider recovery; the heart of the Ironwood dispute. - [[Ironwood]] (published) — Entergy Arkansas natural-gas combustion turbine; the contested GAJA Rider inclusion (CECPN 24-072-U). - [[Jefferson Power Station]] (published) — Entergy Arkansas natural-gas resource; uncontested Strategic Investment (CECPN 25-047-U). - [[Arkansas Cypress]] (published) — Entergy Arkansas solar + battery resource; uncontested Strategic Investment (CECPN 25-054-U). - [[Project Pulse]] (published) — DC Devco's Gum Springs (Clark County) data-center campus; transmission CWIP named for the site in the base rate case. - [[Special rate contract]] (published) — individually negotiated large-customer agreements, excluded from the public cost-of-service study. - [[Site plan review]] (published) — the administrative county land-use review; the only review an un-zoned data-center site faces. - [[Reversion to acreage]] (published) — dissolving an old subdivision plat so land can be developed as a unified tract. - [[Nationwide Permit]] (published) — the Clean Water Act Section 404 mechanism for the Project Leo stream crossings. - [[Project Stratus]] (published) — Conway's internal codename for the Forgelight Ventures data-center project; equated with Forgelight in the Mayor's Office FOIA-2026-129 cover letter. - [[A-1 to I-3 Rezoning (Conway)]] (published) — Conway zoning code rezoning category that permits data centers by right; the operative change in Ordinance O-25-39. - [[Act 9 Industrial Revenue Bond]] (published) — the Arkansas municipal-financing mechanism by which the City of Conway commits to the 65% / 30-year property-tax abatement for Project Stratus. - [[Conway Data Center Noise Ordinance (O-23-55)]] (published) — Conway's 2023 noise ordinance for data centers; 65 dBA at property boundary; cited by staff as the operative noise-control mechanism for Project Stratus. - [[Tupelo Bayou Treated-Effluent Cooling]] (published) — the plan to cool Project Stratus with treated effluent from Conway Corporation's Tupelo Bayou WWTP (NPDES AR0051951 → Arkansas River); the engineering, pretreatment, and blowdown scheme anchored by the 2026-05-29 production. - [[Act 548 (2025)]] (published) — Arkansas data-center qualification statute lowering the threshold to $100M; predecessor Act 758 of 2023. - [[Large-Load Cost-Allocation Comparators]] (published) — out-of-state load-causer-pays models (Kentucky EKPC Data Center Power tariff; KY HB 593 "pay their own way") contrasted with the Arkansas GAJA Rider socialization; created 2026-06-04. - [[Arkansas Data Centers Act of 2023 (Act 851) and 2024 Amendments]] (published) — the digital-asset-mining statute (HB 1799 → Act 851) and its 2024 rollback (Acts 173/174); the basis of the County Attorney's preemption objection to the Pulaski moratorium. - [[AG Opinion 2023-060 and County Authority Over Data Centers]] (published) — the Attorney General opinion cited for the proposition that a county cannot *ban* data-center-type facilities. - [[Pulaski County Zoning and Land-Use Authority]] (published) — the county's land-use powers and the un-zoned-territory gap that let AVAIO Project Leo through on administrative site-plan review alone. - [[Arkansas Quorum Court Ordinance Procedure]] (published) — ordinance readings and the emergency-clause two-thirds (10-of-15) threshold; load-bearing for the contested moratorium vote. - [[Pulaski County Quorum Court]] (published) — the 15-member legislative body of Pulaski County; institutional structure, powers, and relationship to the County Judge; why the AVAIO Project Leo site bypassed it. - APSC Docket 26-001-U (ingested) — Entergy Arkansas base rate case; see the Sources section. - Payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) agreement (seed) - Hyperscale data center (seed) - NPDES permit / cooling-water source determination (seed) ## Events - [[2024-02 Coushatta Management Files an Earlier 145th Street Data-Center Site Plan]] (published) — Coushatta Management, LLC (engineer Harbor Environmental) filed a 60,000-SF data-center site plan at the 145th Street site, administratively approved 2024-02-23 — months before AVAIO's hyperscale filing. - [[2024-09 AVAIO Files Its Project Leo Site Plan with Pulaski County]] (published) - [[2024-10 AEDC Convenes the Project Pyramid Pre-Permitting Introduction]] (published) — Raven Johnson's "Project Acorn"/"Project Pyramid" DEQ introduction; "have asked that I do not share any specific details at this time." - [[2024-11 GROOT LLC Acquires the Bollinger Road Site]] (published) - [[2024-12 Pulaski County Conditionally Approves the Project Leo Site Plan]] (published) - [[2025-09 Google Data Center Water-Use Registration]] (published) - [[2025-11 GROOT LLC Conveys the Project Pyramid Site to the City of West Memphis]] (published) - [[2025-12 Project Leo Site Construction Begins]] (published) - [[2026-01 ADP Little Rock Green Compute Buys Land North of Project Leo]] (published) - [[2026-02 Entergy Arkansas Files Its Base Rate Case]] (published) - [[2026-03 Entergy Files the GAJA Rider Annual Update]] (published) - [[2026-03 APSC Suspends Entergy's Proposed Rates]] (published) - [[2026-04 APSC Staff and Attorney General Contest the GAJA Rider]] (published) - [[2026-04 APSC Evidentiary Hearing on the GAJA Rider]] (published) - [[2026-05 APSC Order No. 6 Legislative Council Reporting Directive]] (published) - [[2026-05 Crittenden County Assessor Produces Project Pyramid Records]] (published) - [[2026-05 Governor's Office Blanket FOIA Exemption]] (published) - [[2026-05 Pulaski County Assessor No-Records Response]] (published) - [[2026-05 Department of Agriculture FOIA Response]] (published) - [[2026-05 Little Rock Port Authority No-Records Response]] (published) - [[2026-05 Pulaski County Government FOIA Response]] (published) - [[2026-05 Conway Corporation Interim FOIA Response]] (published) - [[2026-05 Chamber of Commerce FOIA Filed]] (published) — Arkansas FOIA filed 2026-05-26 to the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce on AVAIO / Project Leo and Willowbend / Project Boar records; § 25-19-105(e) window runs to 2026-05-29. - [[2026-05 Little Rock Port Authority Produces Project Boar Records]] (published) - [[2024-10 Project Stratus Utilities Site Visit]] (published) — October 2, 2024 Conway Corporation utilities site visit and Tupelo Bayou WWTP tour; [[Arkansas Economic Development Commission|AEDC]]'s [[Raven Johnson]] attended; the earliest documented Project Stratus coordination. - [[2025-04 Conway City Council Approves Project Stratus MOU]] (published) — April 1, 2025 Special Council Meeting, 8-0 vote. - [[2025-04 Conway Planning Commission Recommends Project Stratus Annexation and Rezone]] (published) — April 21, 2025 PC meeting, unanimous recommendations on three Project Stratus cases. - [[2025-04 Conway City Council Adopts O-25-37 O-25-38 and O-25-39]] (published) — April 22, 2025 regular Council meeting, 8-0 on three ordinances. - [[2026-05 City of Conway Produces Project Stratus Records]] (published) — May 26, 2026 production of 303 files / 177 MB; the first Tier-1 production from a City-of-Conway custodian. - [[2026-05 Second FOIA Escalation Round]] (published) — May 28, 2026 second-escalation letters to AEDC, APSC, DEE/DEQ, and DFA, all four non-responsive nine working days post-filing; sets a coordinated EOB 2026-06-03 administrative deadline with § 25-19-107 enforcement teed up if missed. - [[2026-05 Conway (f)(3) Log Request and FOIA-2026-126 Follow-Up]] (published) — May 28, 2026 follow-up on the City of Conway's 5/26 FOIA-2026-126 production; demands per-record § 25-19-105(f)(3) log for the four PLACEHOLDER files within five working days, plus FOIA-2026-129 cross-reference clarification and City Clerk Office Item-4 reconciliation. **Resolved 2026-05-29** by the City Clerk clarification (below). - [[2026-05 Conway City Clerk Clarification on FOIA-2026-126]] (published) — May 29, 2026 reply from City Clerk [[Denise Hurd]]: the four PLACEHOLDER cards are Planning working-document stubs superseded by the produced final agenda (not § 105(f)(3) withholdings); FOIA-2026-129 is duplicative of -126; the City holds no utility records (routed to Conway Corp). The re-sent rezone PDF is a byte-identical duplicate (not re-ingested). - [[2026-05 Conway Corporation Produces Project Stratus Records]] (published) — May 29, 2026 Conway Corporation Production 001: 26 utility-side records (cooling-water engineering, NDAs, mid-2024 timeline) fulfilling the Items 1 & 4(c) rolling production. The eighth Tier-1 production. - [[2026-05 DFA FOIA Routing Auto-Replies]] (published) — May 22 + May 28 auto-replies from the DFA `[email protected]` shared mailbox: Janis Bartlett's retired-employee auto-reply nominated Adrianne Larison as the active FOIA contact; Scott Hardin's OOO auto-reply offered a cell number for deadline-pressing matters. Confirms the shared mailbox is multi-recipient and surfaces a courtesy-redirect path to Larison ahead of the EOB 2026-06-03 administrative deadline. - [[2026-05 Pulaski County Quorum Court Vote on Data Center Moratorium]] (published) — May 26 vote on a twelve-month data-center moratorium (emergency ordinance 26-I-37A; sponsors Davis/Ward/Blackwood) with a [[Phil Stowers|Stowers]] floor amendment adding a criteria-based grandfather clause reaching [[AVAIO Digital Partners|AVAIO Project Leo]]; initially marked adopted, corrected May 28 by Clerk [[Terri Hollingsworth]]'s office (did NOT pass — missed the 10-vote emergency threshold). Now Tier-1 anchored by the #26-341 production; per-JP roll-call still not in the legible record. - [[2026-05 Pulaski County Clerk Produces Quorum Court Moratorium Records]] (published) — May 29 NextRequest #26-341 production: the Tier-1 certified records behind the 2026-05-26 moratorium vote (ordinance + Stowers amendment, the Clerk's correction statement, County Attorney [[Hamilton Kemp]]'s memo refusing to sign + AG Opinion 2023-060, the agenda packet, organizational ordinance 25-I-01, and the handwritten voting worksheets). Confirms the moratorium did not pass; surfaces the Kemp-vs-Clerk contradiction ([[T004 - Did the Pulaski County Data-Center Moratorium Pass]]). - [[2026-05 Pulaski County Quorum Court Refers Five Data-Center Measures to Planning Board]] (published) — the Quorum Court's 11-3 referral of five data-center zoning/land-use measures to the County Planning Board — the surviving regulatory track after the emergency moratorium failed. - [[2026-05 County Judge Executive Order Pauses Data-Center Planning Applications]] (published) — County Judge [[Barry Hyde]]'s 30-day intake pause on new data-center planning applications in unincorporated Pulaski County following the failed moratorium. - [[2026-06 Entergy Files Response to APSC Order No. 6 (GAJA Rider)]] (published) — Entergy's 2026-06-01 Doc 76 Legislative-Council report in Docket 26-008-TF: "publicly disclosed contributions: None" for all three strategic investments; per-plant cost figures; 94,893 disconnections in 2025. - [[2026-06 Pulaski County Planning and Development Produces Development-Application Records]] (published) — the 2026-06-02 Dropbox production (83 files, ~240 MB): AVAIO Project Leo is the only data-center site among 544 unincorporated-county site plans since 2024; surfaces the earlier Coushatta filing. - [[2026-06 Little Rock City Board Adopts Data-Center Regulations Ordinance]] (published) — the City Board's unanimous 2026-06-02 adoption of the first municipal data-center zoning regime in the corpus; applies to the Willowbend "Project Boar" site at the Port. - [[2026-06 State Data-Center FOIAs Miss Second-Escalation Deadline]] (published) — as of 2026-06-03, AEDC, APSC, DEE/DEQ, and DFA had all missed the coordinated second-escalation deadline; § 25-19-107 enforcement teed up. - [[2026-06 Arkansas Energy and Environment Produces Data-Center Permit Records]] (published) — DEE/DEQ's 2026-06-08 self-service FOIA response (SEEK + PDS); the first of the four silent state agencies to respond. Yielded the Project Pyramid Title V air permit (238 emergency engines, 60 cooling towers) and the Groot corporate stack; item-6 pre-permitting correspondence supplemental pending ≤06-11. - [[2026-06 APSC Order No. 7 Approves the GAJA Rider Annual Update]] (published) — the 2026-06-04 merits ruling: annual update approved at a revised $109,977,691; Ironwood found a strategic investment (resolving [[T002 - Ironwood Strategic Investment Designation Requirement|T002]]); AG's capital-structure challenge rejected as beyond the Commission's Act 373 authority; new five-year-projection and Independent-Monitor directives. - [[2026-06 Staff Proposes November Hearing Schedule in the Rate Case]] (published) — Staff's 2026-06-05 procedural-schedule motion in 26-001-U: Staff/Intervenor direct 8/5, evidentiary hearing 11/4–5, public comment hearings Batesville 10/20 + El Dorado 10/27. - [[2025-12 APSC Approves the Google SRC and Rejects the Payment Treatment]] (published) — Order No. 9 (2025-12-04, retrieved 2026-06-11): SRC approved; stipulated payment treatment denied as benefiting "EAL and Google, not EAL's other customers." - [[2026-01 Order No. 11 Forces Life-of-Asset Amortization of the Google Payments]] (published) — Order No. 11 (2026-01-29): life-of-Cypress schedule forced; ITC treatment granted non-precedentially with the "fait accompli" / "shall not contract away" directives. - [[2026-06 Quorum Court Postpones the Refiled Data-Center Moratorium]] (published) — June 9: the Griffen-drafted threshold ordinance (≥5 MW / ≥100k gpd) postponed 8–5 to the July 14 motion; expert special meeting first; Kemp letter; Chamber lobbying. - [[2026-06 Google Holds an Invitation-Only Meeting on the Port Data Center]] (published) — June 10 First UMC meeting; "a number of permits that still need to be filed"; Google's own site claims the April 2026 land purchase first-person (T003 new input, flagged). - [[2026-06 Reporting Details the West Memphis 60-Billion-Dollar Bond Cap for the Google Data Center]] (published) — ADG 06-04: $60B Act 9 bonds / 65% PILOT (the Conway template's twin); gray-water cooling statement; 2026 ag-to-commercial reclassification; the Musk-option provenance. - [[2026-06 Conway Enters Mandatory Water Curtailment]] (published) — Phase 2 emergency curtailment from 06-01 (Brewer Lake at 320.2/330 ft MSL) while the Stratus effluent-cooling plan advances. - [[2025-10 DEQ Pre-Application Meeting with AVAIO]] (published) — 10/30/25: AVAIO disclosed "62 emergency diesel backup generators" (NESHAP ZZZZ / NSPS IIII); Hubbard, Nesel, Trinity attending. - [[2026-03 AVAIO Seeks a Tier 4 Equivalent Ruling via the Commerce Secretary]] (published) — the Neil → McDonald → Khoury → Kimbrough chain; the Tier-1 ESA-curtailment disclosure. ## Sources `assessor-crittenden / project-pyramid-2026-05-21` — Crittenden County Assessor production (2026-05-21): - [[assessor-crittenden/project-pyramid-2026-05-21/_overview|_overview]] (published) — production overview. - [[Project Pyramid Site Property Record Card]] (published) — `PRC.pdf`, 18-page property record card, 7 parcels. - [[Crittenden County 2025 Agricultural Land Values]] (published) — `2025 Agri Values.pdf`, agricultural use-value schedule. `agriculture / water-withdrawal-2026-05-22` — Department of Agriculture production (2026-05-22): - [[agriculture/water-withdrawal-2026-05-22/_overview|_overview]] (published) — production overview. - [[Google Data Center Water-Use Registration]] (published) — Facility ID 900055; the Google / Project Pyramid water-use registration (5 files). - [[Data-Center Cooling-Water Regulatory Correspondence]] (published) — cooling-water regulatory threads for two unnamed data centers (4 files). - [[Arkansas Water Plan 2026 Demand and Supply Draft]] (published) — `AWP_Demand-and-Supply_2.25.26.pdf`, the draft statewide water plan. `psc / docket-26-001-u-2026-05-22` — APSC Docket 26-001-U, Entergy Arkansas base rate case (retrieved from the APSC e-filing system, 2026-05-22): - [[psc/docket-26-001-u-2026-05-22/_overview|_overview]] (published) — production overview; the base rate case and the cross-docket finding. - [[Class Cost of Service Study]] (published) — Doc. 51, the Klucher class cost-of-service study. - [[Entergy CEO Direct Testimony]] (published) — Doc. 48, Landreaux; names the Google and AVAIO data centers. - [[Proposed Rate Schedule Revisions]] (published) — Doc. 54, McNeal; the tariff-change catalog. - [[Order No. 4 Suspending Entergy's Rates]] (published) — Doc. 93, the rate-suspension order. `psc / docket-26-008-tf-2026-05-22` — APSC Docket 26-008-TF, Entergy Arkansas GAJA rider (retrieved from the APSC e-filing system, 2026-05-22): - [[psc/docket-26-008-tf-2026-05-22/_overview|_overview]] (published) — production overview; the GAJA rider mechanics. - [[GAJA Rider 2026 Annual Update]] (published) — Doc. 36, Morey; the $110.4M rider update. - [[APSC Staff Testimony on the GAJA Rider]] (published) — Doc. 62, Herring; the Staff critique. - [[Attorney General Testimony on the GAJA Rider]] (published) — Doc. 63, Meyer; the Attorney General's critique. - [[Entergy Rebuttal Testimony on the GAJA Rider]] (published) — Doc. 67, Morey's rebuttal. `psc / docket-26-008-tf-hearing-2026-05-22` — APSC Docket 26-008-TF deep dive: orders, Palmer rebuttal, and hearing-transcript notice (retrieved from the APSC e-filing system, 2026-05-22): - [[psc/docket-26-008-tf-hearing-2026-05-22/_overview|_overview]] (published) — production overview; the procedural record and the unresolved Ironwood dispute. - [[Order No. 1 ALJ Designation]] (published) — Doc. 2, ALJ Hunt designated. - [[Order No. 2 Interim Protective Order]] (published) — Doc. 4, the 22-category seal authority. - [[Order No. 3 Hearing Set for April 28]] (published) — Doc. 40, initial hearing date. - [[Order No. 4 Hearing Rescheduled to April 29]] (published) — Doc. 54, reschedules to 4/29, orders briefing on deadline triggers. - [[Order No. 5 Pre-Hearing Issues]] (published) — Doc. 69, Commission's pre-hearing directives. - [[Palmer Rebuttal on Ironwood]] (published) — Doc. 68, Entergy's substantive Ironwood-inclusion defense. - [[Hearing Transcript Filing Notice]] (published) — Doc. 74, the 301-page transcript is not online (Veritext / Secretary's office). - [[Order No. 6 Legislative Council Report]] (published) — Doc. 75; procedural, not substantive on Ironwood; superseded as latest by [[Order No. 7 Approving the GAJA Annual Update]]. `psc / docket-24-072-u-ironwood-2026-05-22` — APSC CECPN Docket 24-072-U (Ironwood / Lake Catherine Unit 5), retrieved 2026-05-22: - [[psc/docket-24-072-u-ironwood-2026-05-22/_overview|_overview]] (published) — production overview; LC5 = 446 MW gas turbine; replaces LC4 under federal consent decree. - [[Ironwood REDACTED Application]] (published) — the 1,110-page CECPN application for LC5, filed 2024-11-01 — pre-Act-373, the anchor of Palmer's timing argument. - [[Ironwood Order No. 1 ALJ Designation]] (published) — designates ALJ Frazier as Presiding Officer. - [[Ironwood Order No. 2 Interim Protective Order]] (published) — the 16-page, 22-category seal framework later borrowed by the GAJA Rider docket. - [[Ironwood Order No. 3 Sets Hearing]] (published) — sets the 2025-03-05 evidentiary hearing. - [[Ironwood Order No. 4 AEEC Intervention]] (published) — grants AEEC intervention as a Party. - [[Ironwood Order No. 5 Deposition Ruling]] (published) — denies AEEC's late-filed deposition notice as procedurally deficient. `psc / docket-25-047-u-jefferson-2026-05-22` — APSC CECPN Docket 25-047-U (Jefferson Power Station), retrieved 2026-05-22: - [[psc/docket-25-047-u-jefferson-2026-05-22/_overview|_overview]] (published) — production overview; the first Arkansas Act 373 Strategic Investment CECPN; Bethel's testimony on 161 MW executed industrial agreements. - [[Jefferson REDACTED Application]] (published) — the 2,142-page CECPN application for JPS, filed 2025-08-01; the precedent-setting Act 373 strategic-investment filing. - [[Bethel Direct on JPS Industrial Load Growth]] (published) — the corpus's most explicit data-center / industrial-load-growth justification for a new gas plant; the Table 1 load figures sealed under HSPI. - [[Jefferson Order No. 1 Interim Protective Order]] (published) — the seal architecture; later cited by the GAJA Rider docket for its transparency findings. - [[Jefferson Order No. 2 Procedural Schedule]] (published) — sets the 2025-10-30 evidentiary hearing. - [[Jefferson Order No. 3 Discovery Schedule]] (published) — sets 7-day discovery response times. - [[Jefferson Order No. 4 AEEC Intervention]] (published) — grants AEEC full intervention as a Party. - [[Jefferson Order No. 5 SREA Limited Intervention]] (published) — the docket's key Strategic-Investment order: "the first proceeding ... where EAL is explicitly seeking to establish a generation facility ... as a strategic investment." `psc / docket-25-054-u-cypress-2026-05-22` — APSC CECPN Docket 25-054-U (Arkansas Cypress Solar), retrieved 2026-05-22: - [[psc/docket-25-054-u-cypress-2026-05-22/_overview|_overview]] (published) — production overview; Order No. 4 names Altitude Capital / Google as the conditioning customer; 600 MW + 350 MW BESS. - [[Cypress Order No. 1 Interim Protective Order]] (published) — the same 22-category seal framework as the Ironwood and Jefferson dockets. - [[Cypress Order No. 2 Procedural Schedule]] (published) — sets the 2025-12-01 evidentiary hearing. - [[Cypress Order No. 3 Supplemental Testimony]] (published) — anchors the Cypress CECPN as a companion to the Altitude Capital SRC proceeding (25-055-P). - [[Cypress Order No. 4 CECPN Approval]] (published) — the 63-page final order; the corpus's key order tying new generation to a specific data-center customer. - [[Cypress Order No. 5 Independent Monitor Consolidation]] (published) — establishes the Independent-Monitor regime across all three strategic-investment plants; consolidates review into Docket 26-033-U. - [[Cypress Hearing Transcript Notice]] (published) — the 316-page transcript of the 2025-12-01 hearing is not available via the e-filing system. `psc / docket-25-055-p-special-contract-2026-05-22` — APSC Docket 25-055-P (Altitude Capital / Google Special Rate Contract), retrieved 2026-05-22: - [[psc/docket-25-055-p-special-contract-2026-05-22/_overview|_overview]] (published) — production overview; the most consequential docket; Order No. 6 challenges CIAC classification. - [[25-055-P REDACTED Application]] (published) — EAL's SRC application, redacted to a single 177-byte cover page in the public record; the substance is sealed as HSPI. - [[Palmer Direct on the Google SRC]] (published) — Palmer's 19-page direct; the most explicit public-record identification of Altitude Capital as Google's subsidiary. - [[Dalrymple Direct on the Google SRC]] (published) — Dalrymple's direct sponsoring the SRC's key terms (the termination-fee provision sealed in the HSPI version). - [[Google SRC Order No. 2 Procedural Schedule]] (published) — sets the 2025-11-17 public evidentiary hearing. - [[Google SRC Order No. 4 SRC Suspension]] (published) — suspends the Agreement pending a final order, under PPR Rule 6(a). - [[Google SRC Order No. 5 Cypress Inextricability]] (published) — records the 9-part Staff-EAL stipulation; defers hearing cancellation given the docket's "inextricability" with the Cypress CECPN. - [[Google SRC Order No. 6 CIAC Questions]] (published) — the docket's most substantively important order; directs supplemental testimony on whether Google's payments are CIAC or "other form of payment." - [[Google SRC Order No. 7 Hearing Maintained]] (published) — denies the Staff-EAL joint motion to cancel the public hearing. - [[Google SRC Order No. 8 RIM and MBSA]] (published) — post-hearing order directing revised RIM scenarios using the MBSA assumption. `psc / docket-23-025-p-hybar-2026-05-22` — APSC Docket 23-025-P (Hybar Steel Special Rate Contract), retrieved 2026-05-22: - [[psc/docket-23-025-p-hybar-2026-05-22/_overview|_overview]] (published) — production overview; comparison case (non-data-center SRC). - [[Amended Hybar Special Rate Contract Application]] (published) — EAL's 36-page redacted application for the amended Hybar SRC, filed 2025-06-12. - [[Hybar Order No. 2 SRC Approval]] (published) — approves the original Hybar SRC; the most recent prior-art SRC approval before Altitude Capital. - [[Hybar Order No. 5 Amended SRC Approval]] (published) — approves the Amended SRC on the written record, cancelling the scheduled hearing. `psc / docket-22-032-tf-large-power-2026-05-22` — APSC Docket 22-032-TF (Large Power High Load Density Service tariff), retrieved 2026-05-22: - [[psc/docket-22-032-tf-large-power-2026-05-22/_overview|_overview]] (published) — production overview; Rate Schedule No. 69; Cryptic Farms (crypto-mining) intervened. - [[LPHLDS Klucher Direct Testimony]] (published) — Klucher's direct in support of the LPHLDS tariff; only 2 pages public, the substance sealed as HSPI. - [[LPHLDS Order No. 7 Tariff Approval]] (published) — the final order approving the LPHLDS tariff as Rate Schedule No. 69, with a three-month-deposit authorization. - [[LPHLDS Order No. 8 Additional Reporting]] (published) — directs additional annual reporting on customers taking service under Rate Schedule 69. `psc / docket-26-001-u-schedule-h-2026-05-22` — APSC Docket 26-001-U Doc. 47 (REDACTED Application + Minimum Filing Requirement Schedules), retrieved 2026-05-22: - [[psc/docket-26-001-u-schedule-h-2026-05-22/_overview|_overview]] (published) — production overview; the cross-cutting finding that AVAIO Project Leo and Project Pulse transmission projects are in the rate-base CWIP. - [[26-001-U Doc 47 Volume 1 Application and Schedules A-B]] (published) — Vol. 1, the Application + Schedule B-8 CWIP line items. - [[26-001-U Doc 47 Volume 2 Schedules C]] (published) — Vol. 2, Statement of Utility Operating Income. - [[26-001-U Doc 47 Volume 3 Schedules D]] (published) — Vol. 3, Cost of Capital (9.90% ROE). - [[26-001-U Doc 47 Volume 4 Schedules E]] (published) — Vol. 4, Balance Sheet. - [[26-001-U Doc 47 Volume 5 Schedules F]] (published) — Vol. 5, Depreciation by FERC account. - [[26-001-U Doc 47 Volume 6 Schedules G]] (published) — Vol. 6, the Cost of Service Study Summary. - [[26-001-U Doc 47 Volume 7 Schedules H-1 to H-5]] (published) — Vol. 7, the rate-class revenue arithmetic. - [[26-001-U Doc 47 Volume 8 Schedule H-10 Proposed Tariffs]] (published) — Vol. 8, proposed tariff book (clean). - [[26-001-U Doc 47 Volume 9 Schedule H-10 Revision-Marked Tariffs]] (published) — Vol. 9, proposed tariff book (revision-marked). `psc / docket-24-072-u-order-9-2026-05-24` — APSC Docket 24-072-U Order No. 9 (CECPN grant for Ironwood / LC5; Doc. 152, 2025-04-18), retrieved 2026-05-24 to close the load-bearing documentary gap on [[T002 - Ironwood Strategic Investment Designation Requirement|T002]]: - [[docket-24-072-u-order-9-2026-05-24/_overview|Ironwood Order No. 9 CECPN Grant]] (published) — 55-page CECPN grant by ALJ [[Bridgette M. Frazier]] under delegated authority. Makes substantive findings on reliability and dispatchable generation under UFEEPA § 23-18-519(b) but never invokes "Strategic Investment," § 23-4-1303, or § 23-4-1304. Load-bearing for T002 / [[D002 Synthesis|D002]] / [[D004 Synthesis|D004]]. `psc / docket-26-008-tf-order6-response-2026-06-03` — APSC Docket 26-008-TF, Order No. 6 + Entergy's response (Docs 75-76), retrieved 2026-06-03: - [[psc/docket-26-008-tf-order6-response-2026-06-03/_overview|_overview]] (published) — production overview; Entergy's Doc 76 Legislative-Council report answering Order No. 6 — "publicly disclosed contributions: None" for all three strategic investments. - [[Entergy Order No. 6 Response]] (published) — Doc. 76 (2026-06-01, Palmer): per-plant cost figures (Ironwood $700.2M / Jefferson $1.60B / Cypress $1.605B), ~41 permanent jobs, 94,893 customer disconnections in 2025, +$5.74 Year-1 residential bill impact. `city-littlerock / project-boar-2026-05-26` — Little Rock Port Authority, Project Boar / Willowbend Capital production (2026-05-26): - [[city-littlerock/project-boar-2026-05-26/_overview|_overview]] (published) — production overview; the Tier-1 conveyance record for the 383.52-acre / $11,505,600.00 Port land sale. - [[Willowbend Capital Warranty Deed]] (published) — Pulaski County Inst. # 2025033561; the recorded Special Warranty Deed (City of LR / for the use and benefit of the LRPA → Willowbend Capital LLC; $10 nominal, $11,505,600 actual). - [[Willowbend Capital Closing Statement]] (published) — ALTA Settlement Statement, file 101-251188-ML; Stuart Hindmarsh of Kutak Rock LLP signs as Authorized Signatory for Willowbend. - [[Port Authority Land-Sale Resolution]] (published) — Port Board Resolution 0429221, 2025-04-29 (Chair: Clay McGeorge; Recording Secretary: Bryan Day). - [[City of Little Rock Willowbend Resolution]] (published) — unexecuted draft template of the City's deed-authorizing resolution under Ark. Code Ann. § 14-54-302; superseded by [[City Resolution 16671]]. - [[City Resolution 16671]] (published) — the **executed** City Board Resolution No. 16,671, adopted 2025-04-29, signed by Mayor Frank Scott Jr., City Clerk Allison Segars, and City Attorney Thomas M. Carpenter; delivered by Bryan Day on 2026-05-26 evening as a third-reply follow-up. The resolution itself invokes § 25-19-105(b)(9)(A) for the underlying Purchase Agreement. - [[Project Boar Site Survey]] (published) — 2025-06-19 ALTA/NSPS by Pickering Firm; prepared for EMH&T; "city annexation pending." `city-conway / project-stratus-2026-05-26` — City of Conway, Project Stratus / Forgelight Ventures production (2026-05-26): - [[city-conway/project-stratus-2026-05-26/_overview|_overview]] (published) — production overview; 303 files / 177 MB; the first Tier-1 production from a City-of-Conway custodian; T003 scan finding (no Tier-1 city-source principal identification; EMH&T shared-engineer channel identified). - [[Project Stratus MOU and April 1 Special Council Meeting]] (published) — `MOU.pdf` (trade-secret stamped), the April 1, 2025 Special Council Meeting executed minutes, the agenda packet, and Jamie Gates's "Project Stratus Next Steps and Sequence" memo. - [[Project Stratus Next Steps and Sequence]] (published) — Jamie Gates's April 1, 2025 sequencing memo to the Mayor and Council, forwarded ~3 hours before the MOU vote; the Chamber/CDC's fully-developed downstream plan. - [[Stratus Vesting Deed (Adams)]] (published) — Faulkner County Inst. # L202107772 (2021); the 160-acre Adams Property in Section 30, T5N R14W; the corpus's first Tier-1 parcel anchor for Project Stratus. - [[Annexation Ordinance O-25-37 (Lollie Rd)]] (published) — 296.21-acre annexation east of Lollie Rd designating I-3 zoning; Faulkner County Inst. # L202506520; companion O-25-38 (39.50 acres) referenced in council minutes. - [[Rezone Ordinance O-25-39 and REZ-0425-0052]] (published) — rezone of the Adams Property A-1 → I-3; Faulkner County Inst. # L202506522; rezone-case file (cover letter, certificate of mailing, REZ-0425-0052 docx, CDC case-file PDF). - [[April 2026 FAQ Project Stratus]] (published) — staff-authored 43-question public-facing FAQ; first Tier-1 city-source acknowledgment of 1-GW build-out design and 5 MGD water-use scale. - [[Project Stratus Permits Sequencing and Stormwater]] (published) — internal permits and stormwater coordination correspondence; establishes EMH&T as Project Stratus's site-civil engineer (second Tier-1 channel for Forgelight↔Willowbend overlap). - [[Conway Internal Staff Teams Chats on Project Stratus]] (published) — Planning Department Teams chats and internal-email portfolios; Lauren Hoffman's draft data-center notice ordinance; staff knowledge gap on April 2, 2025. - [[Conway Planning Commission Reports April and May 2025]] (published) — April 21, 2025 PC meeting packet + PC roster + April/May 2025 PC Reports. - [[Conway City Council Agendas and Minutes on Project Stratus]] (published) — chronological council agendas/minutes touching the project: July 25 2023, Sept 26 2023 (O-23-55 adoption), April 22 2025 (votes), May 12 2026 (no Stratus item). - [[Project Stratus Public Notice Sign Proofs and Locations]] (published) — rezone-notice signs and location map. - [[City of Conway FOIA-2026-126 Cover and No-Response Letter]] (published) — production-process record: Mayor's Office cover letter for FOIA-2026-129 / FOIA-2026-126 explicitly equating "Project Stratus" with "Forgelight Ventures"; City Clerk's Office "no records" letter on Item 4. - [[Project Stratus Public-Comment Correspondence Record]] (published) — 226 constituent .msg files (204 unique by body), 76 unique senders; inventory CSV at `extracted/city-conway/project-stratus-2026-05-26/public-comment-inventory.csv`. `city-conway / conway-corp-stratus-2026-05-29` — Conway Corporation, Project Stratus utility production 001 (2026-05-29): - [[city-conway/conway-corp-stratus-2026-05-29/_overview|_overview]] (published) — production overview; 26 records on FOIA Items 1 & 4(c); the cooling-water engineering, the NDAs, and the mid-2024 timeline. - [[Conway Corporation Project Stratus NDAs]] (published) — the executed Conway Corporation ↔ [[Black & Veatch]] effluent NDA and the individual staff NDAs with the developer-side [[Spark Innovations, LLC]] entity. - [[Project Stratus Utilities Meetings and Site Visit]] (published) — the 2024-06-21 → 2026-05 coordination record; the Oct 2, 2024 site visit with AEDC's [[Raven Johnson]]; pushes the earliest Stratus reference to 2024-06-21. - [[Black & Veatch Effluent-Cooling Engineering for Project Stratus]] (published) — the TBWWTP Evaluation Reimbursement Agreement, the non-potable water-quality data request, the PFAS work order, and the April 2026 Final Engineering Report transmittals. - [[Tupelo Bayou NPDES Permit and Conway Pretreatment Program]] (published) — NPDES permit AR0051951 (Outfall 001 → Arkansas River), Conway pretreatment ordinance O-12-08, the utility service form, and the 2023 drinking-water report. `county-pulaski / project-leo-2026-05-22` — Pulaski County government, AVAIO Project Leo planning file (2026-05-22): - [[county-pulaski/project-leo-2026-05-22/_overview|_overview]] (published) — production overview; the county's land-use and permitting file on Project Leo. - [[AVAIO Project Leo Site Plan and County Review]] (published) — the site plan, application, county review checklists, and conditional-approval notice (5 files). - [[AVAIO Project Leo Data Center Floor Plans]] (published) — the 40 MW and 60 MW data-center building floor plans (2 files). - [[Project Leo Engineering and Environmental Permits]] (published) — drainage report, SWPPP, USACE Clean Water Act application, driveway permit (4 files). - [[Pulaski County Planning Correspondence on Project Leo]] (published) — eleven county emails, 2024–2026 (11 files). - [[Vesta Addition Reversion to Acreage]] (published) — the Vesta Addition plat revocation and 1965 precedent records (3 files). `county-pulaski / data-center-moratorium-2026-05-29` — Pulaski County Clerk, 2026-05-26 data-center moratorium vote records (NextRequest #26-341, 2026-05-29): - [[county-pulaski/data-center-moratorium-2026-05-29/_overview|_overview]] (published) — production overview; the Tier-1 records behind the contested moratorium vote, and the Kemp-vs-Clerk passage contradiction. - [[Data Center Moratorium Ordinance 26-I-37A and the Grandfather Amendment]] (published) — the emergency ordinance (sponsors Davis, Ward, Blackwood) and the Stowers Article 8 grandfather amendment (2 files). - [[Pulaski County Clerk Statement on the Corrected Moratorium Vote]] (published) — the Clerk's 2026-05-28 statement that the vote was miscounted and the ordinance did not pass. - [[County Attorney Memo and AG Opinion 2023-060 on the Moratorium]] (published) — County Attorney Kemp's 2026-05-27 memo refusing to sign + the attached AG Opinion 2023-060 (2 files). - [[Certified Quorum Court Voting Worksheets 2026-05-26]] (published) — the handwritten per-item voting worksheets (not machine-legible; embody the disavowed miscount). - [[May 2026 Quorum Court Agenda Packet]] (published) — the meeting packet: late-item memo, agenda, base ordinance text, and the April 28 minutes. - [[Quorum Court Organizational Ordinance 25-I-01]] (published) — the 2025-2026 QC rules of procedure; the two-thirds (10-of-15) emergency-ordinance threshold. `county-pulaski / development-applications-2026-06-02` — Pulaski County Planning & Development, development-applications production (Dropbox, 2026-06-02): - [[county-pulaski/development-applications-2026-06-02/_overview|_overview]] (published) — production overview; 83 files, ~240 MB; the negative finding (AVAIO Project Leo is the only data-center site among 544 unincorporated-county site plans since 2024) and the Coushatta provenance find. - [[Pulaski County Site-Plan Application Log]] (published) — the county's two administrative logs (544 site-plan rows; 61 watershed permits); the only data-center entries are the two 145th Street filings. - [[Pulaski County Administrative Site-Plan Review Procedure]] (published) — the site-plan checklist and sample status letter; staff-level review with "PLANNING BOARD APPROVAL MEETING DATE: N/A." - [[Coushatta Management 145th Street Data Center Site Plan]] (published) — the earlier (Feb 2024) Coushatta Management 60,000-SF data-center site plan at 145th Street (engineer Harbor Environmental), approved eight months before AVAIO's filing. - [[AVAIO Project Leo Large Site-Plan Package]] (published) — AVAIO's full ~60-file Project Leo site-plan package 2024–2026, including the USACE wetland-permit package and the codenamed "Project Little Rock" summary. `deq / seek-pds-data-center-permits-2026-06-08` — DEE-DEQ self-service SEEK + PDS data-center permit records (collected 2026-06-08): - [[deq/seek-pds-data-center-permits-2026-06-08/_overview|_overview]] (published) — production overview; the 2026-06-08 self-service FOIA response (SEEK + PDS), 58 records; item-6 supplemental landed 2026-06-11 (next block). - [[Project Pyramid Title V Air Permit (2507-AOP-R0)]] (published) — **the headline record**: the Google/West Memphis Title V air permit (PDS) — 238 emergency engines (232 Tier 2 gensets), 60 cooling towers, roadway emissions. - [[Project Pyramid SEEK Construction-Stormwater Records]] (published) — Groot/Pyramid water records (AFIN 18-01005) + the Tier-1 corporate stack (GDH Holdings sole member; Montfort/Thomas = Wilson Sonsini). - [[AVAIO Little Rock SEEK Construction-Stormwater Records]] (published) — AVAIO/Leo water records (AFIN 60-06409); no air/NPDES-discharge/cooling-withdrawal record. `deq / pre-permitting-correspondence-2026-06-11` — DEE-DEQ item-6 pre-permitting correspondence supplemental (delivered 2026-06-11 via SharePoint; ingested 2026-06-12; 78 files, 7 re-productions of the 06-08 set): - [[deq/pre-permitting-correspondence-2026-06-11/_overview|_overview]] (published) — production overview; delivery, hash-check, and the six file groups. - [[AVAIO Tier 4 Equivalent Email to the Commerce Secretary]] (published) — **the headline record**: Neil → McDonald → Khoury → Kimbrough; the executed Entergy ESA's curtailment terms (150 h/yr; LMR Type 1 → Ironwood Nov 2028; EEA-2 → Jefferson Dec 2029); "Without this provision, Entergy would not have supplied any power." - [[AVAIO Emergency Generator Pre-Permitting Correspondence]] (published) — the 10/30/25 pre-app (62 generators) + Feb–Mar 2026 threads; NERC-EEA framing; "Tier IV equivalent… through Title V permitting"; §60.4211(g)(3); Cummins QSK78 / Miratech data. - [[ADP Rankin Data Hub Mississippi Air Permit Application]] (published) — AVAIO's Mississippi template (50 × 3 MW; PSD-avoidance synthetic minor; Joe Hubbard EVP as Responsible Official). - [[Groot Air Permit Pre-Draft Correspondence]] (published) — Binder1: the disclosure-statement refusal; "Manager will suffice"; the confidential engine schedule; the 249-tpy NOx cap; David Essex (google.com) CC'd. - [[Project Boar CWA 401 Pre-File and Application]] (published) — Willowbend's § 401 track; "light industrial complex"; Individual § 404 SWL-2026-00038; 15.10 ac wetlands; Montfort Counsel→Manager. - [[Project Pyramid USACE Public Notice and Water Quality Track]] (published) — PN MVM-2024-216 ("data center campus…five large-scale data center buildings"; Attn: Stuart Hindmarsh); STAA 20250025; the AEDC introduction; SoS printouts; DEQ checklists. - [[AVAIO Little Rock Water Permitting Records]] (published) — the signed Leo STAA (Kevin Murphy VP, Fish Creek crossings, USACE Nationwide SWL-2025-00064); CGP NOC; pending HQN-AP0Z-K08T3 modification. `psc / docket-26-008-tf-order7-2026-06-10` — APSC Docket 26-008-TF decision tranche (Docs 77–79), retrieved 2026-06-10: - [[psc/docket-26-008-tf-order7-2026-06-10/_overview|_overview]] (published) — production overview; Order No. 7 + the compliance round. - [[Order No. 7 Approving the GAJA Annual Update]] (published) — Doc. 77 (2026-06-04): the merits ruling — update approved; Ironwood found a strategic investment; AG capital-structure challenge rejected; refund caution + transparency directives. - [[Revised GAJA Rider Rate Schedule 73]] (published) — Doc. 78 (2026-06-05): the approved per-class rates ($109,977,691 total; Residential $0.00574/kWh = $5.74/mo at 1,000 kWh). - [[Staff Compliance Testimony on the Revised GAJA Rider]] (published) — Doc. 79 (2026-06-08): Herring verifies compliance, recommends approval. `psc / docket-26-001-u-procedural-2026-06-10` — APSC Docket 26-001-U Staff procedural-schedule motion (Doc 160), retrieved 2026-06-10: - [[psc/docket-26-001-u-procedural-2026-06-10/_overview|_overview]] (published) — production overview. - [[Staff Motion to Adopt Rate-Case Procedural Schedule]] (published) — Doc. 160 (2026-06-05): proposed schedule through the 11/4–5 evidentiary hearing; Batesville 10/20 + El Dorado 10/27 public comment hearings. `psc / docket-25-055-p-final-order-2026-06-11` — APSC Docket 25-055-P final-order tranche (Docs 74–84), retrieved 2026-06-11 after discovery of the truncated 2026-05-22 capture: - [[psc/docket-25-055-p-final-order-2026-06-11/_overview|_overview]] (published) — the currency-gap discovery and the eight-document decision record. - [[Google SRC Order No. 9 Final Approval and CIAC Ruling]] (published) — Doc. 74 (2025-12-04): SRC approved without modification; EAL's payment treatment denied ("benefit EAL and Google, not EAL's other customers"). - [[Google SRC Order No. 11 Rehearing Ruling]] (published) — Doc. 83 (2026-01-29): life-of-Cypress amortization forced; ITC treatment granted non-precedentially ("fait accompli"; "shall not contract away ratemaking treatments"). - [[Google SRC CIAC Compliance Filing]] (published) — Doc. 84 (2026-02-05): revised CKE-3/CKE-4 (HSPI-sealed) implementing Order No. 11. ## Synthesis - [[README|Synthesis index]] (published) — landing page for the synthesis section; lists the synthesis pages with confidence flags and abstracts. - [[Identifying the Unnamed Cooling-Water Data Centers]] (published, confidence: low) — web-research attempt to identify the two unnamed cooling-water data centers; both remain unidentified. - [[The Conway Data Center Project]] (published, confidence: low) — the Conway / Forgelight Ventures "Project Stratus" data center, now anchored by both Tier-1 productions (City 2026-05-26, Conway Corporation 2026-05-29): site located, 1-GW design, cooling-water engineering, NDAs, mid-2024 timeline. Confidence remains low per [[D003 Synthesis]] because the developer principal is unidentified (the [[Spark Innovations, LLC]] → West Memphis name coincidence is a lead, not an identification). - [[The Port of Little Rock Data Center]] (published, confidence: medium) — the Port of Little Rock "Project Boar" data center (Willowbend Capital / Google), consolidated from the April 29, 2025 Little Rock MOU and the corporate registry. - [[Who Pays for Entergy's New Generation]] (published, confidence: medium) — the cross-docket synthesis on cost allocation across seven APSC dockets; identifies the CIAC-classification dispute in 25-055-P as the central pending regulatory question; documents the sealed inputs to the "$1.7B savings" claim. Provisional on [[T001 - CIAC Classification of Google Generation Payments]]. - [[Pulaski County's Attempt to Regulate Data Centers]] (published, confidence: medium) — how the county has (not) regulated data centers: AVAIO Project Leo's administrative-site-plan path through an un-zoned county, the failed emergency moratorium (26-I-37A) and the County-Attorney preemption objection under the Arkansas Data Centers Act, the surviving 11-3 Planning-Board zoning referral, and the County Judge's 30-day intake pause. Tier-1 spine (#26-341 + the AVAIO file) with two Tier-3 dependencies. - [[Documentary Minimization in the Arkansas Data-Center Record]] (published, confidence: medium) — the cross-cutting pattern by which the public record is engineered thin across all six sites: NDAs binding public-side participants (Conway Corp + the Chamber at Project Boar), deliberate non-creation of records (Bryan Day's "very few emails"), shell developers, trade-secret/competitive designations, blanket statutory exemptions (the Governor's (b)(7)), and APSC sealing. Locates the highest-value remaining targets. - [[Where the Buildout Remains Contingent]] (published, confidence: medium) — the decision-point map (2026-06-11): every documented open decision across the six sites and four arenas — Conway's unenacted abatement/franchise/cooling approvals, Boar's pre-permit posture, Leo's unbuilt legal floor (deed/air/water/USACE/undocketed ESA), the APSC prudence + allocation calendar, the July 14 county vote, and the records still sealed — compiled via a seven-domain adversarially-verified analysis. ## Tensions The investigation's tensions register — first-class objects flagging contested mechanism / framing / attribution / evidentiary claims with explicit Statement A / Statement B / Resolution status. See `AGENTS.md` (Tension page-type) for the schema. Tensions are anchored to one or more synthesis pages via `synthesis_pages:` ↔ `relies_on_tensions:`. - [[T001 - CIAC Classification of Google Generation Payments]] (**resolved-via-Order-No-9-and-Order-No-11**, factual, confidence: high) — **Resolved by orders the wiki had missed** (REDACTED Order No. 9, 2025-12-04; Order No. 11, 2026-01-29 — retrieved 2026-06-11 after the truncated 2026-05-22 docket capture was discovered): the SRC approved without modification, but the Staff–EAL stipulated treatment **denied** — the Commission found it would "benefit EAL and Google, not EAL's other customers" — and a **life-of-Cypress amortization forced** (compliance 2026-02-05; schedules HSPI-sealed). Statement B's substance prevailed; Statement A's "other form of payment" label survived. Original question, for the record — Should Google's generation-related SRC payments be classified as CIAC under § 23-4-1304(x)(2)(A) (deducted from rate base) or as "other form of payment" under § 23-4-1304(x)(2)(B)? Pressure-tested via [[D001 Synthesis]] (2026-05-24 — run, unknowingly, after the final order already existed; its statutory analysis stands, its docket-posture premise was stale). See [[psc/docket-25-055-p-final-order-2026-06-11/_overview|the final-order tranche]]. - [[T002 - Ironwood Strategic Investment Designation Requirement]] (**resolved-via-Order-No-7**, factual, confidence: high) — **Resolved 2026-06-04 by [[Order No. 7 Approving the GAJA Annual Update|Order No. 7]]**: no prior designation finding is required for a § 23-4-1304(w) transition facility, and the order itself found Ironwood "qualifies as a strategic investment under § 23-4-1303(10)" — the ~$33.9M stays in the rider; the dialectics' minimum-content question answered (the approving order can carry the finding). Original question, for the record — Is a specific Commission Strategic Investment finding required for [[Ironwood]] to be in the GAJA Rider, or do § 23-4-1304(w) (pre-Act-373 transition) + § 23-4-1304(f)(1) (utility election) suffice for a pre-Act resource that meets § 23-4-1303(10)(B)(i)? [[APSC Staff Testimony on the GAJA Rider|Staff (Herring)]] says finding required; [[Palmer Rebuttal on Ironwood|EAL (Palmer)]] says election + transition + 25-049-TF prior recognition suffice. ~$33.9M of the rider's $110.4M at stake. Pressure-tested via [[D002 Synthesis]]. Two corpus retrievals 2026-05-24 closed the documented brackets: [Act 373 of 2025 enrolled bill](web%20archive/2026-05-24/arkleg.state.ar.us/act-373-of-2025.md) (Tier-2; the actual (w) text shows (w) is a three-condition recovery-eligibility test, not a designation waiver); and [[docket-24-072-u-order-9-2026-05-24/_overview|Ironwood Order No. 9 CECPN Grant]] (Tier-1; the order makes substantive findings on reliability and dispatchable generation but **never invokes "Strategic Investment"** — the analytical framework throughout is UFEEPA, not Act 373). The bracket was then clean and singular: the Commission's substantive ruling on whether UFEEPA findings substantively satisfy the (10)(A) purposes prong was the dispositive remaining evidence until Order No. 7 supplied the finding directly, 2026-06-04. - [[T003 - Shell-LLC Principal Attribution for Forgelight and Willowbend]] (**bracketed-because-no-Tier-1-channel-names-the-principal**, attribution, confidence: high) — Is the wiki's "Google the leading candidate" framing for [[Forgelight Ventures, LLC]] (Conway) and "reportedly Google's" framing for [[Willowbend Capital, LLC]] (Port of Little Rock) appropriately calibrated? Pressure-tested via [[D003 Synthesis]] — **antithesis prevailed on Forgelight** ("Google the leading candidate" must be stripped per the wiki's own [[Identifying the Unnamed Cooling-Water Data Centers]] restraint precedent); **thesis partially survived on Willowbend** at a downgraded posture (preserve *DCD/ADG* reporting but reframe as explicit Tier-3-uncorroborated rather than "reportedly Google's"). The dialectic surfaced that the [[Altitude Capital, LLC]] comparison case shows the *standard* Forgelight/Willowbend evidence must meet (3 independent Tier-1 channels), not a license for naming Google on weaker evidence. Editorial implementation: see [[The Conway Data Center Project]] (confidence downgraded to low) and [[The Port of Little Rock Data Center]] (`reportedly Google's` reframed). Re-tested via [[D005 Synthesis|D005]] (2026-05-29 — the Spark Innovations finding; restraint reaffirmed) and [[D006 Synthesis|D006]] (2026-06-03 — labeling-restraint upheld; the recorded pattern sharpened to a "documented multi-state Google-linked nominee apparatus"), which set the current status: `bracketed-because-no-Tier-1-channel-names-the-principal`. - [[T004 - Did the Pulaski County Data-Center Moratorium Pass]] (**resolved**, factual, confidence: high) — Two Tier-1 county records produced together in NextRequest #26-341 disagree on whether the 2026-05-26 emergency moratorium (26-I-37A) was adopted: County Attorney [[Hamilton Kemp]]'s 2026-05-27 memo says the Quorum Court "adopted" it, while Clerk [[Terri Hollingsworth]]'s 2026-05-28 statement says it "should not have passed" (missed the 10-vote emergency threshold). Resolved in favor of the Clerk's later-in-time correction — Kemp's memo reflects the pre-correction miscount. Residual gap: the corrected per-JP roll-call is not in the legible record (handwritten worksheets; awaits the meeting video). No dialectic warranted. ## Dialectics The investigation's dialectical record — three-phase Hegelian arguments (thesis → antithesis → synthesis) authored by three fresh-context subagents per the Hegelion call-isolation discipline. See `AGENTS.md` (Dialectic phase page-type, Dialectic workflow) for the schema. Dialectics are anchored to tensions via `tension:` and produce explicit verdicts on the tension's `status:` field. The synthesis is the citable verdict; thesis and antithesis are the citable phase records. - **D001 — CIAC Classification of Google Generation Payments** (verdict: bracketed-because-final-order-pending, run 2026-05-24) — Three sequential general-purpose subagent calls on [[T001 - CIAC Classification of Google Generation Payments]]. [[D001 Thesis]] (Statement A: "other form of payment" is sound, asymmetry is justified by asset-class distinction), [[D001 Antithesis]] (Statement B: payments are CIAC under § 23-4-1304(x)(2)(A); the asymmetry invents a distinction the statute does not draw; surfaced [[Dalrymple Direct on the Google SRC]] testimony documenting EAL's own "financially support the development" language on the transmission CIAC side), [[D001 Synthesis]] (verdict: bracketed pending Commission final order in 25-055-P + HSPI RIM-test sensitivities; both positions survived intact). Cascades to [[Who Pays for Entergy's New Generation]]; body-sync completed 2026-05-24. - **D002 — Ironwood Strategic Investment Designation Requirement** (verdict: bracketed-because-(w)-text-and-Commission-ruling-pending, run 2026-05-24) — Three sequential general-purpose subagent calls on [[T002 - Ironwood Strategic Investment Designation Requirement]]. [[D002 Thesis]] (Statement A: § 23-4-1303(10)(B)(i) per se + § 23-4-1304(f)(1) election + § 23-4-1304(w) pre-Act transition + 25-049-TF prior recognition + UFEEPA "major utility facility" analogy), [[D002 Antithesis]] (Statement B: a Commission designation finding is required; antithesis pulled the (10)(A) chapeau's "approved by the Commission" requirement from the **thesis's own primary source** [[Palmer Rebuttal on Ironwood]] p. 4, and surfaced the dedicated "Strategic Investment Findings" sections in [[Cypress Order No. 4 CECPN Approval]] and [[Jefferson Order No. 5 SREA Limited Intervention]] that no Ironwood order matches), [[D002 Synthesis]] (verdict: the substantive merits cut harder against Statement A than the thesis acknowledged, but the § 23-4-1304(w) waiver question remains live because neither phase read the actual (w) text — both worked from Palmer's paraphrase — and the Commission has not yet ruled). Cascades to [[Who Pays for Entergy's New Generation]]. Body-sync of Who Pays Section I.3 deferred to follow-on pass. - **D003 — Shell-LLC Principal Attribution for Forgelight and Willowbend** (verdict: **resolved-via-D003**, run 2026-05-24) — Three sequential general-purpose subagent calls on [[T003 - Shell-LLC Principal Attribution for Forgelight and Willowbend]]. [[D003 Thesis]] (Statement A: framing appropriately calibrated; twin-shell architecture + Tier-3 named-outlet reporting + Altitude Capital comparison case + Bayesian-best-estimate framing), [[D003 Antithesis]] (Statement B: framings over-claim; six of seven "fingerprint" dimensions collapse to registry-vendor artifacts; *DCD* itself declined to attribute Forgelight to Google; Altitude Capital actually shows the **standard** evidence must meet, not a license — three independent Tier-1 channels at West Memphis vs. zero such channels at Forgelight/Willowbend), [[D003 Synthesis]] (**asymmetric verdict** — antithesis prevails on Forgelight, thesis partially survives on Willowbend at downgraded posture; the wiki's own [[Identifying the Unnamed Cooling-Water Data Centers]] restraint precedent is controlling for Forgelight; Willowbend reframed as Tier-3-uncorroborated rather than "reportedly Google's"). Cascades to [[The Conway Data Center Project]] (confidence downgraded to low) and [[The Port of Little Rock Data Center]] (reframing applied). Body edits implementing the verdict landed 2026-05-24. - **D004 — UFEEPA findings as (10)(A) purposes** (verdict: **bracketed-because-Commission-ruling-pending — refined reason**, run 2026-05-24, follow-on dialectic on [[T002 - Ironwood Strategic Investment Designation Requirement|T002]] with the now-complete corpus) — Three sequential general-purpose subagent calls testing whether the corpus retrievals earlier in the day (Act 373 of 2025 enrolled bill at Tier 2; Ironwood Order No. 9 at Tier 1) could resolve T002 without waiting on the Commission's substantive ruling. [[D004 Thesis]] (Statement A refined: Order No. 9's findings on reliability and dispatchable generation substantively satisfy (10)(A)(ii) and (iv); (w)'s three conditions are met; the chapeau requires substance, not magic words), [[D004 Antithesis]] (Statement B refined: Order No. 9 is a UFEEPA proceeding anchored to § 23-18-519(b) standards, NOT Act 373; UFEEPA and Act 373 are distinct frameworks with distinct procedural protections; the Cypress and Jefferson comparator orders contain dedicated "Strategic Investment Findings" sections that Order No. 9 lacks), [[D004 Synthesis]] (verdict: bracket preserved with **refined epistemic content** — both phases stipulate the documentary substrate; the live disagreement is "minimum content" rather than "categorical exclusion"; the antithesis's own evidence (Cypress Order No. 4 Section F) demonstrates designation CAN ride inside a CECPN order, narrowing the dispute to what minimum content is required). The corpus is now complete; the bracket has shifted from D002's "we lack the documents" to D004's "the question is committed to agency discretion." - **D005 — Spark Innovations and the Conway Principal Attribution** (verdict: **`resolved-via-D003` reaffirmed**, run 2026-05-29, follow-on dialectic on [[T003 - Shell-LLC Principal Attribution for Forgelight and Willowbend|T003]] testing the new Tier-2 [[Spark Innovations, LLC]] finding) — Three sequential general-purpose subagent calls. [[D005 Thesis]] (Statement A: the SoS-verified Spark finding — a third [[Michael Montfort]] Delaware shell named in the Conway NDAs at Tier-1 and reported at the confirmed-Google West Memphis site — fills D003's gap and warrants naming Google as the channel-anchored strongest candidate), [[D005 Antithesis]] (Statement B: it adds **zero** Tier-1 channels naming Google at Conway; the transitivity "Google at West Memphis" → "Google at Conway" is invalid absent any showing Spark is a Google-exclusive vehicle; the shared-Montfort axis is the dimension D003 already discounted and still hinges on the bracketed formation-agent-vs-in-house question; the categorical [[Identifying the Unnamed Cooling-Water Data Centers]] precedent controls), [[D005 Synthesis]] (verdict: the **antithesis carries the identification question — `resolved-via-D003` reaffirmed, the wiki does not name Google**; the thesis's narrower point survives — the Montfort cluster is materially better documented (three shells; two Conway Tier-1 footholds; one Tier-3 edge toward GROOT), so the wiki records the **stronger Tier-2 structural link without escalating to identification**). The line drawn: a documented Tier-2 structural link is recordable as fact; identification of the principal is not asserted. Surfaced **Montfort's professional role** (in-house officer vs. Delaware formation-firm organizer) as the rate-limiting fact for the entire T003 line. - **D006 — Probable Principal Framing for the Montfort Shell Cluster** (verdict: **bracketed-because-no-Tier-1-channel-names-the-principal** — antithesis prevails on labeling, thesis on characterization, run 2026-06-03, follow-on dialectic on [[T003 - Shell-LLC Principal Attribution for Forgelight and Willowbend|T003]] testing the STLPR/KCUR multi-state finding and Google's public Little Rock Board appearance) — Three sequential general-purpose subagent calls. [[D006 Thesis]] (Statement A: the multi-state Montfort/Thomas Google-LLC finding (STLPR/KCUR — a seven-LLC, four-state nominee pattern with out-of-state Tier-1 Google confirmations) plus Google's own public appearance before the Little Rock Board justify a calibrated "probable principal: Google" framing), [[D006 Antithesis]] (Statement B: categorical restraint — zero Tier-1 Arkansas channels name the principal; the probability is uncomputable from a Google-selected sample; a "probable" tier inverts the burden of proof and collapses downstream; the Brown appearance evidences an end-user, not the shell's beneficial owner), [[D006 Synthesis]] (verdict: **the antithesis prevails on the labeling question** — no probable-principal tier; **the thesis prevails on the characterization question** — the wiki records, in its own voice, a "documented multi-state Google-linked nominee apparatus" while holding the principal unidentified). T003 → `bracketed-because-no-Tier-1-channel-names-the-principal`; un-bracketing trigger: a Tier-1 Arkansas channel naming the principal (the Altitude Capital three-channel standard). **Cross-dialectic pattern (3-domain test result: meta-dialectic THRESHOLD APPROACHED but NOT yet warranted):** Per the Karpathy-Hegelion Pipeline Phase 6 termination criterion: "Do they produce varied verdicts (some resolved, some bracketed)? Then the wiki's evidentiary base is producing meaningful variance; no meta-dialectic needed." Updated count (post-D004): D001 (bracketed-Commission-ruling), D002 (bracketed-(w)-text+Commission), D003 (resolved), D004 (bracketed-Commission-ruling). **Three of four dialectics now bracket with a Commission-ruling-pending component** — exactly the recurring underlying-evidentiary-problem pattern the methodology flags as meta-dialectic-warranting. The single resolved verdict (D003) was the most methodologically heterogeneous tension (different parent synthesis, attribution rather than factual, Tier-2/3 evidence base, wiki-internal resolution path). The variance is real, but the pattern is also real. A meta-tension would ask: is the recurring "Commission-ruling-pending" bracketing a *substantive* feature of the APSC's framework-recognition process (Statement A — the Commission systematically declines to designate ahead of contested proceedings, which has institutional-design implications), or a *methodological* feature of the wiki's regulatory-corpus scope (Statement B — the bracketing reflects that the wiki has chosen to focus on dockets where the Commission is the dispositive forum, and follow-on FOIA / interlocutory-motion access to related agency records would close the gaps)? Recommended action: file the meta-tension if/when a T005 or D005 also brackets on the same Commission-ruling-pending pattern; the third concurring bracketing would be the strict 3-domain-on-same-pattern threshold per the methodology's operational reference. **Post-script (2026-06-10):** the pattern partially discharged itself — the D002/D004 Commission-ruling bracket lifted when [[Order No. 7 Approving the GAJA Annual Update|Order No. 7]] issued (T002 → `resolved-via-Order-No-7`), validating Statement A of the prospective meta-tension (the Commission rules when its own proceeding requires it, not ahead of it). T001's 25-055-P bracket remains the live instance.