A local activist in Arkansas filed an FOI request to the state PUC about a what Entergy was doing with regard to Google's efforts to secure power for their planned data center in West Memphis, Arkansas.
It appears that she got more than what the utility company intended.
The short version:
- Google appears to be paying only a third of the cost for new electric infrastructure, not the full amount, as Entergy has said.
- Yes, these documents appear to undermine Entergy’s claims that customers won’t pay higher bills to support data centers
- Details of Google’s West Memphis site’s massive power draw are revealed. [Google would be using all of the energy from a solar installation that it was touting.]
In response to this data being released, Entergy filed suit asking for a restraining order preventing the news media from writing about this information, something which a Federal Judge promptly denied.
Entergy claimed that the documents revealed trade secrets, but the fact that Entergy plans to screw its rate-payers is simply not a secret. It never has been.
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