index - AR Data Centers

# 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. ## People - [[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) — Pulaski County Judge-elect; takes office 2027-01-01; **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. ## Organizations - [[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. - [[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. - [[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 Energy and Environment (DEE) / Division of Environmental Quality (DEQ) (seed) — FOIA filed 2026-05-19; appears in the Agriculture correspondence; no response to its own FOIA yet. - 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. - [[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 - [[2024-09 AVAIO Files Its Project Leo Site Plan with Pulaski County]] (published) - [[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) - [[2026-02 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. ## Sources `assessor-crittenden / project-pyramid-2026-05-21` — Crittenden County Assessor production (2026-05-21): - [[_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): - [[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): - [[_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): - [[_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): - [[_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, the most recent order; procedural, not substantive on Ironwood. `psc / docket-24-072-u-ironwood-2026-05-22` — APSC CECPN Docket 24-072-U (Ironwood / Lake Catherine Unit 5), retrieved 2026-05-22: - [[_overview]] (published) — production overview; LC5 = 446 MW gas turbine; replaces LC4 under federal consent decree. `psc / docket-25-047-u-jefferson-2026-05-22` — APSC CECPN Docket 25-047-U (Jefferson Power Station), retrieved 2026-05-22: - [[_overview]] (published) — production overview; the first Arkansas Act 373 Strategic Investment CECPN; Bethel's testimony on 161 MW executed industrial agreements. `psc / docket-25-054-u-cypress-2026-05-22` — APSC CECPN Docket 25-054-U (Arkansas Cypress Solar), retrieved 2026-05-22: - [[_overview]] (published) — production overview; Order No. 4 names Altitude Capital / Google as the conditioning customer; 600 MW + 350 MW BESS. `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: - [[_overview]] (published) — production overview; the most consequential docket; Order No. 6 challenges CIAC classification. `psc / docket-23-025-p-hybar-2026-05-22` — APSC Docket 23-025-P (Hybar Steel Special Rate Contract), retrieved 2026-05-22: - [[_overview]] (published) — production overview; comparison case (non-data-center SRC). `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: - [[_overview]] (published) — production overview; Rate Schedule No. 69; Cryptic Farms (crypto-mining) intervened. `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: - [[_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]]. `city-littlerock / project-boar-2026-05-26` — Little Rock Port Authority, Project Boar / Willowbend Capital production (2026-05-26): - [[_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): - [[_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. - [[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): - [[_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): - [[_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. ## 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. ## 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]] (bracketed-because-final-order-pending, factual, confidence: high) — 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) (recognized over Cypress's life)? Staff–EAL stipulated the latter; Commission's [[Google SRC Order No. 6 CIAC Questions|Order No. 6]] challenges the asymmetric treatment. Pressure-tested via [[D001 Synthesis]]; both positions survived the dialectic intact. Load-bearing for [[Who Pays for Entergy's New Generation]] Section IV. - [[T002 - Ironwood Strategic Investment Designation Requirement]] (**bracketed-because-Commission-ruling-pending**, factual, confidence: high) — 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 is now clean and singular: the Commission's substantive ruling on whether UFEEPA findings substantively satisfy the (10)(A) purposes prong is the dispositive remaining evidence. - [[T003 - Shell-LLC Principal Attribution for Forgelight and Willowbend]] (**resolved-via-D003**, 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). - [[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. **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.