Entergy files heavily redacted amended application for Google’s West Memphis data center project
Entergy filed a heavily redacted amended application with the Arkansas Public Service Commission to support Google’s expanding data center campus near West Memphis. The proposal increases Google’s planned electricity demand and adds two battery storage facilities, while keeping details about rates, infrastructure costs and termination fees confidential.
Entergy has submitted an amended application to the Arkansas Public Service Commission related to Google’s $4 billion data center campus outside West Memphis. The filing would increase Google’s planned maximum electricity demand above 600 megawatts and accelerate its power ramp-up, prompting Entergy to add the Driver BESS battery facility in Mississippi County and the Jones Mill BESS project in Hot Springs. The amended agreement also includes the Big Island Solar project in Mississippi County and follows Entergy’s request for the commission to reconsider its earlier rejection of that project’s power-purchase agreement.
Much of the amended agreement remains sealed at Google’s request, including the company’s contributions to battery and transmission infrastructure, rate-setting information and a potential termination fee. The Arkansas Public Service Commission had previously directed Entergy to disclose some of those details. The contract has drawn criticism from lawmakers and the public, and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette previously sued for access to records; Entergy later dropped a countersuit. Google is expected to begin taking service in 2027 and reach its original 600-megawatt demand by 2029, while additional demand under the amended agreement remains undisclosed.