# 2025-02 Google Executes the Project Stratus Reimbursement Agreement In late January–February 2025, [[Google LLC]]'s [[Sydney Henry]] (Energy & Location Strategy) routed the executed [[Developer Reimbursement Agreement]] for the [[Tupelo Bayou Treated-Effluent Cooling|Tupelo Bayou WWTP]] cooling-water study on [[Project Stratus]] and triggered Google's reimbursement payment to [[Conway Corporation]] — the first Tier-1 record of Google directly transacting and paying under the Stratus codename. > [!contradiction] Google's direct execution and payment here is recorded as a Tier-1 fact; whether it identifies Google as the Project Stratus principal in the wiki's voice is contested and reserved for a prospective D007 dialectic ([[T005 - Google as the Project Stratus Customer]] / [[T003 - Shell-LLC Principal Attribution for Forgelight and Willowbend|T003]]). ## Sources - [[Project Stratus Contract Instruments]] — [[Sydney Henry]] routes the executed agreement and asks Conway Corp to complete a payment-info form *"to get the payment triggered"* (`PROD-048`); a corrected executed copy follows (`PROD-049`). - [[Tupelo Bayou Effluent Study RFQ and Engineering Reports]] — Henry confirms *"the payment is in flight, so they should see that come through over the next few days"* (`PROD-031`/`PROD-063`). ## What happened The Reimbursement Agreement — circulated in draft via [[Conway Development Corporation]] in Oct–Nov 2024 (`PROD-028`) — was executed and paid in early 2025, with Google's [[Sydney Henry]] driving the payment mechanics and Conway Corporation as payee. The agreement funds Conway's study (performed by [[Black & Veatch]]) of treated effluent for industrial cooling. ## Significance - Establishes, at Tier-1, that the **customer side reimburses the public utility for the feasibility study** — the study-layer answer to the project's "who pays" question (see [[Developer Reimbursement Agreement]]). - Places **Google personnel directly in the transaction** as the paying party (tracked at [[T005 - Google as the Project Stratus Customer]]). ## Notes - **The dollar amount is not in the produced record** — only transmittal emails; the executed agreement and payment-info form were not produced. A follow-up FOIA for the executed agreement and payment records is recommended.