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Data center campus · West Memphis (south side of Bollinger Road, per DCD), Crittenden County, Arkansas

Google West Memphis data center campus

Under construction as of Oct. 20, 2026

Google is building a $4 billion first phase of a planned five-building cloud and AI campus of about 1,100 acres in West Memphis, powered by Entergy Arkansas under a Google-funded supply contract.

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Power600MW reported
Site1,100acres

Who is behind it

ProjectGoogle West Memphis data center campus
Developer and teamGoogle (through Alphabet Inc.)
End userGoogle

The record, newest first

  1. Entergy Arkansas announced a Google-funded second phase: about $600 million in battery storage and related system upgrades, a 440 MW solar purchase from the Big Island plant, and substation and transmission work, to be filed with the PSC with a 2028 in-service target. (Talk Business & Politics, Oct. 19, 2026; Data Center Dynamics, Oct. 20, 2026)

  2. Axios, citing Democrat-Gazette reporting on PSC documents, said Google will pay about $716 million toward the Cypress Solar project and transmission upgrades, with service starting in February 2027. (Axios NW Arkansas, Sept. 1, 2026)

  3. Google, the governor and local officials announced the campus at the site, with $4 billion of spending through 2027 and the Cypress Solar project near Pine Bluff tied to the power deal. (Arkansas Economic Development Commission, Oct. 2, 2025; Talk Business & Politics, Oct. 2, 2025; Arkansas Advocate, Oct. 2, 2025; POWER Magazine, Oct. 3, 2025)

  4. PSC staff testified that the Entergy Arkansas special rate contract with Altitude LLC, an Alphabet subsidiary, met the commission's rules and served the public interest; no other party filed testimony. (Entergy Corporation (SEC Form 10-Q, period ended Sept. 30, 2025), Nov. 2025)

  5. Google applied to the state Division of Environmental Quality for an air permit covering backup generators. (Arkansas Advocate, Oct. 2, 2025; POWER Magazine, Oct. 3, 2025)

  6. Entergy Arkansas and Google asked the PSC to approve a special rate contract for a hyperscale campus in West Memphis, seeking a decision by Dec. 4, 2025. (Talk Business & Politics, Sept. 7, 2025)

Conflicts and open questions

  • Acreage differs: more than 1,000 (AEDC), 1,000 (Talk Business), 1,100 (Arkansas Advocate, POWER, Axios), 1,178 (DCD).
  • Talk Business (Sept. 2025) called it a potential $1 billion investment before the $4 billion figure was announced.
  • DCD reported the PSC turned down a separate Entergy request for a power purchase agreement with the Big Island solar plant in early September 2026; the second-phase filing was still to come.
  • Entergy's quarterly SEC filing names the contract counterparty as Altitude LLC, an Alphabet subsidiary. The PSC contract docket and order could not be opened, so the MW figure stays on reporting.
  • DCD counts five planned buildings; one project per campus.

The full record

Status note
Announced at the site on Oct. 2, 2025; DCD in October 2026 described the campus as under development, with first grid service expected in February 2027.
Power note
Service ramps to about 600 MW by October 2029, per a PSC memo reported by Axios (citing the Democrat-Gazette) and by DCD; the memo itself was not opened.
Evidence
Primary public records
Size class
50 MW or more (tracker scope)
Map position approximate, from the reported address or area. Updated Oct. 17, 2026.