# KCUR — "Google, Missouri data center, St. Charles" (2025-09-08) KCUR companion to the [[2026-06-03/stlpr.org/documents-link-secretive-st-charles-data-center-google-2025-09-08|STLPR investigation]], extending the [[Michael Montfort]] / David Thomas multi-state shell-LLC pattern to Indiana. ## Source metadata - **Publisher:** KCUR (NPR Kansas City), 2025-09-08. - **Archived:** 2026-06-03, by Invoke-WebRequest (sha256 logged). ## Extract (key passages) - "In Indianapolis, another LLC registered by Montfort, **Deep Meadow Ventures**, submitted a rezoning application to build a data center ... Records obtained by WFYI revealed Google was behind the project." - "The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported Friday that **Google confirmed** it is the company behind that [West Memphis] data center project." ## Notes - **Tier 3.** Adds Deep Meadow Ventures (Indianapolis) to the Montfort-registered set and notes two Virginia sites elsewhere in the reporting; reinforces the **recurring nominee/registered-officer** reading of [[Michael Montfort]] (option B in [[T003 - Shell-LLC Principal Attribution for Forgelight and Willowbend|T003]]). - **Firewall / T003 restraint:** same as the STLPR companion — contextual, not principal-establishing; the wiki does not name a beneficial principal for the Arkansas LLCs on this Tier-3 basis.