# Google Data Center Water-Use Registration Five files from the Department of Agriculture production documenting the water-use registration of the **"Google Data Center"** at Proctor, Arkansas — the [[GROOT LLC|Project Pyramid]] site on Bollinger Road, West Memphis (Crittenden County). This is the first government record in the corpus to name Google. ## What's inside - `Google DC emails 1.pdf` — email, [[Tyson Schlect]] ([[INFRA science & engineering]]) to the Department, 2025-09-29, transmitting *"two Water Use Registration forms to re-assign two wells"* and forwarding his note to the Department's Mike Guess. - `Google DC emails 2.pdf` — reply from [[Katie Hartter]] (Department Water Use Program Coordinator), 2025-09-29, confirming the registration and the facility/well IDs. - `Non-agri-Reg-Packet-2023-1 Central Well.pdf` — the completed water-use registration form and measurement-point page for the **Central Well Bollinger**. - `Non-agri-Reg-Packet-2023-1 Galet.pdf` — the completed water-use registration form and measurement-point page for the **NW Well Galet**. - `ck 1831 900055_Redacted.pdf` — the registration-fee check (check no. 1831), redacted as to bank-account information; references Facility ID 900055. ## Key takeaways - **The facility is named "Google Data Center."** [[Katie Hartter]] wrote: *"The water use registration for Google Data Center in Proctor AR will be complete once $20 registration fee is received"* (`Google DC emails 2.pdf`). Both registration forms list the **Name of Facility** as "Google Data Center," at **2579 Waverly Road, Proctor, AR 72376**, with **SIC code 7374** — the standard industrial classification for computer/data-processing services (`Non-agri-Reg-Packet-2023-1 Central Well.pdf`, `... Galet.pdf`). - **Facility ID 900055.** Hartter assigned the facility ID and two measurement-point IDs: *"Facility ID: 900055 — MPID 35061190123801: CENTRAL WELL BOLLINGER — MPID 35065290124401: NW WELL GALET"* (`Google DC emails 2.pdf`). - **It is a re-assignment of two pre-existing wells.** [[Tyson Schlect]] filed the forms *"On behalf of Project Pyramid in Proctor… to re-assign two wells"* (`Google DC emails 1.pdf`). Both wells predate the data center: the **Central Well Bollinger** (Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer, 120 ft deep, Crittenden County) was drilled **2012-04-20** by Billy Jumper; the **NW Well Galet** (same aquifer, 84 ft, Crittenden County) was drilled **2016-11-08** by Charlie Agee (`Non-agri-Reg-Packet-2023-1 Central Well.pdf`, `... Galet.pdf`). Both are groundwater wells drawing from the alluvial aquifer — which the registration packet notes is **not** a "sustaining aquifer." - **The transmittal cites construction urgency.** Schlect asked the Department to *"advise on any collaboration needed to expedite your review… as usage of the wells is important for some near term construction activities"* (`Google DC emails 1.pdf`). - The registration fee was $20; the check (no. 1831, redacted) references Facility ID 900055. > [!note] The measurement-point pages contain the registered withdrawal figures for each well (questions 31–32). The OCR/text extraction of the handwritten form entries is partial; cite the raw PDF page images for the precise withdrawal amounts rather than the extracted text. ## People and orgs mentioned - [[Katie Hartter]] — Department Water Use Program Coordinator; confirmed the registration and assigned the IDs. - [[Tyson Schlect]] — [[INFRA science & engineering]] program manager; filed the registration on behalf of Project Pyramid. - [[Google LLC]] — the named facility is the "Google Data Center." - [[INFRA science & engineering]] — the engineering firm that filed the registration. - Jeff Borgsmiller of "TCCo" (a Memphis-area address) was copied on the transmittal; Mike Guess is the Department's water-use registration contact. (Plain-text mentions; not anchored beyond this production.) ## Concepts invoked - [[Water-Use Registration]] — the registration of non-domestic groundwater withdrawal under Act 1051 of 1985. ## Events documented - [[2025-09 Google Data Center Water-Use Registration]] ## Cross-references - The wells sit on the Bollinger Road / Project Pyramid site assembled by [[GROOT LLC]] and conveyed to the [[City of West Memphis]] — see [[2024-11 GROOT LLC Acquires the Bollinger Road Site]] and the Crittenden County Assessor production. "Central Well Bollinger" is named for Bollinger Road; drilled in 2012 and 2016, the wells date to the [[Bollinger Bros Inc]] agricultural ownership and are being repurposed for the data center. ## Open questions / follow-ups - The registration re-assigns two existing alluvial-aquifer irrigation-era wells. Whether the Google data center's cooling demand will be met by these wells alone, or by additional/expanded withdrawals, is not established in this production. - No document here names the corporate entity that owns or operates the "Google Data Center" facility, or states the relationship between [[Google LLC]] and [[GROOT LLC]] (the site's owner of record). The facility name is the anchor.