The Proposed Google Data Center
A $1 billion Google data center was negotiated for two years before the public knew a thing.
Now they want our water, our power, and our land. We're not asking permission to be heard. We're demanding it: a one-year moratorium, full transparency, and a real voice before a single permit is signed.
About This Project
We're not anti-jobs and we're not anti-technology. We're people who live here, and we're done being told about decisions after they're already made.
A deal this big, drawing this much from shared public resources, doesn't get negotiated in secret and rushed through on twelve hours' notice. Not in our community.
We're asking our Justices of the Peace and our city directors to do one simple thing: listen to the people who elected them before they hand over the keys. Give us a seat at the table. That's the whole demand. We're not anti-jobs and we're not anti-technology. We're people who live here, and we're done being told about decisions after they're already made.
A deal this big, drawing this much from shared public resources, doesn't get negotiated in secret and rushed through on twelve hours' notice. Not in our community.
We're asking our Justices of the Peace and our city directors to do one simple thing: listen to the people who elected them before they hand over the keys. Give us a seat at the table. That's the whole demand.
Project Timeline
A secret courtship, and a 12-hour land vote
The Chamber courts Google and other data centers under NDAs. Land near the Port is teed up for sale with as little as twelve hours' public notice, leaving no real time for comment.
A newspaper, not an official, names Google
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports Google is behind the $1 billion Port of Little Rock project. Residents learn the scale of what's been planned for them.
Army Corps filing exposes the true footprint
A federal document reveals 1.43 million square feet across five industrial buildings plus a dedicated electrical substation, dwarfing the figure shared with the public.
A moratorium passed, reversed, and thrown out
The county moratorium passed, then was reversed on a miscount, then thrown out entirely. Meanwhile the Chamber and utilities held a press conference to fight "misinformation" rather than open the books.
The vote gets postponed... again
Rather than decide, officials voted to postpone, stating that they need to hear from independent subject matter experts. The question of sending a moratorium to the full Quorum Court now lands on the second Tuesday of July.
Take Action Now
What's the CTA we want people to do? Go to a City Board of Directors meeting??