# Data center eyes Clark County, set to buy mega site in $11M deal > *Near-verbatim extract of the archived article from The Arkadelphian, lightly cleaned for readability. The original HTML is preserved alongside this file.* ## Source metadata - **Publisher:** The Arkadelphian (arkadelphian.com) - **URL:** https://arkadelphian.com/2026/04/22/data-center-eyes-clark-county-set-to-buy-mega-site-in-11m-deal/ - **Published:** 2026-04-22 (updated; originally 2026-04-16) - **Byline:** Joel Phelps - **Archived:** 2026-05-22, by PowerShell Invoke-WebRequest - **Wayback snapshot:** https://web.archive.org/web/20260522190011/https://arkadelphian.com/2026/04/22/data-center-eyes-clark-county-set-to-buy-mega-site-in-11m-deal/ ## Extract A data center development called "Project Pulse" is planned for Clark County, Arkansas. The Economic Development Corporation of Clark County unanimously approved selling the 991-acre Southwest Arkansas Mega Site in Gum Springs to DC Devco LLC for approximately $11.4 million on April 16, 2026. Three Atlanta-area businessmen representing the buyer — Cameron Grogan, Chris Hoag, and David Aldridge — presented details to the EDCCC board. The project envisions a data center campus with a minimum $1 billion investment, generating 150 primary jobs and operating by 2032. The facility will employ a closed-loop cooling system using approximately 50,000 gallons of water daily from an available 600,000-gallon capacity — about 8% of available water. The system recycles water internally for cooling servers rather than continuously consuming fresh supplies. Power represents the primary development challenge. The campus requires phased power delivery of up to one gigawatt, necessitating coordination between Entergy and South Central Arkansas Electric Cooperative across the site's divided service territory. The end user will fund all power infrastructure upgrades. The buyer identified natural gas availability as attractive, planning to use on-site natural gas transmission lines alongside grid power. Construction will occur in phases across four to six years, in 150-megawatt increments. (The Gum Springs site purchase was structured with $200,000 earnest money — $50,000 non-refundable — and a 120-day inspection period. Projected tax revenue was cited as $60–70 million annually.) ## Notes - **Tier 3** — local news outlet; authoritative secondary reporting. - Relevant to the investigation: documents "Project Pulse," a data-center project for the 991-acre Southwest Arkansas Mega Site at Gum Springs, **Clark County** — buyer **DC Devco LLC**, end user unnamed. The cooling design is a **closed-loop system at roughly 50,000 gallons per day** — three orders of magnitude below the 4.32 MGD groundwater withdrawal described in the [[McClelland Consulting Engineers]] correspondence. A later report (The Arkadelphian, 2026-05-01) records that the EDCCC contract for this project was subsequently terminated. - Cited by: [[Identifying the Unnamed Cooling-Water Data Centers]]