# McClelland Consulting Engineers McClelland Consulting Engineers (MCE) is an Arkansas-based engineering firm (offices in Little Rock and Fayetteville). It corresponded with Arkansas regulators about cooling-water wells for an unnamed data center. ## People MCE engineers appearing in the corpus: Stephen Youngblood, P.E. (Water & Wastewater Department, Little Rock); Shannon Jones, P.E. (Senior Project Engineer, Fayetteville). ## Roles in this corpus - In January 2026, Stephen Youngblood told the Arkansas Department of Agriculture that *"MCE is doing primary work on possible well locations and capacity for the required cooling water needed for a future data center,"* and asked whether wells *"pulling a total 4.32 MGD from the Sparta Aquifer"* would need State Water Compliance review — see [[Data-Center Cooling-Water Regulatory Correspondence]]. - In November 2024, Shannon Jones made a related inquiry about drilling a private well for industrial cooling water within municipal boundaries. ## Notes MCE is a developer-side consultant for an unnamed data-center project that plans groundwater cooling from the Sparta Aquifer. Whether the November 2024 and January 2026 inquiries concern the same project — and which data center either concerns — is not established in the corpus. ## Web-research context A web-research attempt on 2026-05-22 to identify the data center behind McClelland's 4.32 MGD [[Sparta Aquifer]] cooling-water work did not succeed. No public source ties McClelland Consulting Engineers, Stephen Youngblood, or Shannon Jones to a named Arkansas data-center project, and no announced Arkansas data center is publicly matched to a multi-million-gallon-per-day Sparta Aquifer well field. The project remains unidentified. See [[Identifying the Unnamed Cooling-Water Data Centers]] for the full analysis.