# Elai Fresco Elai Fresco is a senior water engineer in Arup's San Francisco office. In 2024–2025 he led a confidential water-infrastructure due-diligence inquiry to Arkansas regulators on behalf of an unnamed industrial / data-center project. ## Role and affiliations Senior Engineer, Water — [[Arup]], 560 Mission Street, San Francisco. Licensed P.E. (California). ## Appearances in the corpus - [[Data-Center Cooling-Water Regulatory Correspondence]] — from October 2024 through March 2025, corresponded with the Arkansas Department of Agriculture, the Division of Environmental Quality, and the Department of Health about cooling-water wells, groundwater withdrawal, non-contact-cooling-water discharge, underground injection, and public-water-system service areas for *"some proposed industrial facilities in Arkansas,"* describing the work as deciding whether *"to go ahead with land purchase"* (`RE_ Arkansas water_wastewater regulatory questions.msg`). ## Notes Fresco withheld the project name and site, citing *"project confidentiality."* The facilities he described — millions of gallons per day of evaporative non-contact cooling water, many buildings built in phases — are characteristic of a hyperscale data center. The specific project is not identified in the corpus.