# 2026-06 Google Holds an Invitation-Only Meeting on the Port Data Center On **2026-06-10** Google held an **invitation-only meeting** at First United Methodist Church of Little Rock about its proposed data center at the Port of Little Rock — the Project Boar site whose recorded deed runs to [[Willowbend Capital, LLC]]. Members of the public and media were initially kept outside; after complaints, non-invited attendees were admitted (web research 2026-06-11, [Fox16 report](../../web%20archive/2026-06-11/www.fox16.com/google-closed-door-meeting-first-umc-2026-06-10.md)). ## Sources - (web research 2026-06-11, [Fox16 — "Google holds closed-door Little Rock data center meeting"](../../web%20archive/2026-06-11/www.fox16.com/google-closed-door-meeting-first-umc-2026-06-10.md)) — the meeting report (Caden Michaels). - (web research 2026-06-11, [littlerockdatacenter.com — Google's first-party project site](../../web%20archive/2026-06-11/www.littlerockdatacenter.com/google-littlerock-purchase-confirmation-2026-06-11.md)) — Tier-3 first-party company statement, archived 2026-06-11. ## What happened - The church reported it was approached by **"city officials"** about renting the space (the archived Fox16 text does not specify which government; the PR-firm attribution circulating in initial research could not be verified in the archived text and is omitted). - **Google public affairs representative Laurel Brown, on the record:** "We are very early in the process. There are a number of permits that still need to be filed," adding, "I know people think there's gonna be a data center tomorrow, that's not the case." - **Google's own project website** (littlerockdatacenter.com, archived 2026-06-11) states: **"In April 2026, Google confirmed that we have purchased land at the Port of Little Rock for a potential data center"** — describing the project as in an "Evaluation" stage and noting "[a] final decision to build is only made after all diligence and public reviews are complete." ## Significance - **A first-party public claim of the land purchase — material new input for [[T003 - Shell-LLC Principal Attribution for Forgelight and Willowbend|T003]].** The recorded Special Warranty Deed (Pulaski County Inst. # 2025033561) conveys the 383.52 acres to **Willowbend Capital, LLC**; Google's own site now says, in Google's first-person voice, that *Google* "purchased land at the Port of Little Rock." This is a **Tier-3, first-party** channel — not the Tier-1 Arkansas record channel D006 set as the un-bracketing trigger — but it is categorically different from third-party reporting: the putative principal is now publicly identifying itself with the Willowbend parcels. **Recorded as a new input on T003; status unchanged pending maintainer review** (per the D006 discipline, un-bracketing is surfaced, not auto-applied). - **"A number of permits that still need to be filed" is a Tier-3 admission of the project's regulatory posture** — consistent with the wiki's Tier-1 negative findings (no SEEK/PDS footprint; no city permits), and it confirms the [[2026-06 Little Rock City Board Adopts Data-Center Regulations Ordinance|June 2 ordinance]] reaches the project before any entitlement vests. - **The meeting format — invitation-only, PR-firm-managed, public initially excluded** — extends the documented-minimization pattern ([[Documentary Minimization in the Arkansas Data-Center Record]]) from records management into public engagement. ## Open follow-ups - Whether Google's April-2026 "confirmation" exists in a citable April-dated first-party artifact (press statement, site snapshot) — the archived site text is the June-11 capture. - The "city officials" who arranged the venue — a City of Little Rock FOIA candidate (correspondence with Google/Cooley Public Strategies about the June 10 meeting). - T003: maintainer decision whether the first-party site statement plus the 2026-06 public appearances warrant a D007 dialectic on the Willowbend attribution.