# KLRT FOX16 — "Pulaski County sends five data center measures to planning board after heated debate over Google and AVAIO projects" (2026-05-12) Reporter Mattison Gafner. The source that **dates the five-measures Planning Board referral to the May 12, 2026 Quorum Court meeting** (not 2026-05-26) and enumerates the measures. ## Source metadata - **Publisher:** KLRT FOX16 (fox16.com); by Mattison Gafner. - **Published:** "Posted: May 12, 2026 / 10:30 PM CDT; Updated: May 12, 2026 / 10:42 PM CDT." - **Archived:** 2026-06-03. **Original-fetch failure:** the page returned HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) to the archival download; the text below was recovered the same day via a secondary fetch (mcp Docker fetch). Re-archive of the original HTML is pending. ## Extract (key passages) - "By the end of the night, the Pulaski County Quorum Court voted **11-3** to send **five separate data center-related items** back to the county planning board for additional review and public hearings before any final action is taken." The referral includes: "**Resolution 32, Resolution 33, Ordinances 30, 31 and 34**." "County leaders said the planning board must return recommendations within **90 days**." - "Justice Julie Blackwood, who sponsored the resolutions, repeatedly stressed" the oversight concern (text truncates). - Same-day morning press conference: the **Little Rock Regional Chamber, Entergy Arkansas, Central Arkansas Water, and the Little Rock Water Reclamation Authority** launched **LRDataCentersFacts.com**. Chamber CEO Jay Chesshir cited public concern "around water usage, electricity demand, environmental impact, and noise." - Entergy's Vintrell Thompson: "large customers like Google and AVAIO would be required to pay the full costs associated with infrastructure upgrades ... 'These data center projects are not being built on the backs of Arkansas families and businesses,'" citing up to "$1.7 billion in customer benefits" via Entergy's "**Fair Share Plus**" framework. - CAW CEO Tad Bohannon: system treats ~67 million gallons/day (157 MGD capacity); supply projected adequate "through approximately 2100." LRWRA CEO Jean Block: the Port wastewater system can handle Google's project without raising sewer rates. - Chesshir: a $1B port data-center building → ~$4.5M total property taxes, >$1.8M/yr to the City, ~$2.8M/yr to the Pulaski County Special School District; Google "could eventually expand to five buildings." AVAIO: "$6 billion investment with the possibility of eventually growing into a $21 billion development ... approximately 760 acres ... up to one gigawatt of power ... more than 500 permanent jobs." ## Notes - **Tier 3.** This is the dispositive source for the **date correction**: the 11-3 five-measures referral occurred at the **2026-05-12** Quorum Court meeting, distinct from the failed emergency-moratorium vote of **2026-05-26**. The wiki had conflated the two into the 05-26 meeting. - Contains useful pre-cutoff context (the LRDataCentersFacts.com industry campaign; Entergy's "Fair Share Plus" full-cost claim) that bears on the "who pays" thesis but is not itself a post-cutoff development.