Straight answers, including the inconvenient ones.

No. Google has described the project as preliminary and subject to further due diligence and final design decisions. Power delivery depends on ERCOT approval, which the Governor has now paused pending an audit. The wastewater permit has not been issued, and the final water study was still outstanding. That said, the land is privately owned and the owners have the right to sell or lease it, and the county cannot zone it. "Not decided" is not the same as "unlikely."

Along Three Way Road in northern Archer County, southwest of Wichita Falls, roughly 2,800 acres. Access improvements described so far involve Three Way Road, FM 2224, FM 1954, and US 79.

The tax abatement application was filed by Dynamo Ventures LLC. State Rep. James Frank confirmed in April that Google identified itself to him as the proposed developer and operator. Google has not made a public announcement of the Archer County site the way it did for Wilbarger County.

No, and the difference matters. The Wilbarger County site near Vernon was formally announced by Google in February 2026, is co-located with new AES power generation, and is under construction. Archer County is a separate, earlier-stage site with no public announcement and no completed permits.

No, and it is worth seeing the whole picture. The Calvano campus on 227 acres near Kiel Lane and City View Drive was rezoned by the Wichita Falls City Council on Nov. 5, 2024. A Skybox project in Wichita Falls has been described as breaking ground in the fourth quarter of 2026. Google's Wilbarger County site near Vernon is under construction. Project Raptor is the largest of them and the only one in Archer County.

Three reasons. Water: the supply runs through Wichita Valley Water Supply Corporation, which buys wholesale from the City of Wichita Falls, so the source is our lakes regardless of which county the meter sits in. Power: 1,000 MW connects to the same ERCOT grid your house does, and transmission costs get spread. Roads: construction traffic runs US 79 and FM 2224 through both counties.

The city has said it has no contract, agreement, or formal commitment with Google, and that its role is limited to wholesale sales. The water supply corporation's general manager has confirmed that water for a project in Archer County would originate in Wichita Falls through existing wholesale agreements. Both things are true at once, which is exactly why the wholesale contract terms are worth reading.

Nobody can honestly promise you either way. Large loads add demand; they can also fund new generation and spread fixed transmission costs across more usage. What we can say is that the cost allocation for a 1,000 MW interconnection is decided in ERCOT and PUCT proceedings that accept public comment, and that anyone telling you the answer with certainty right now is guessing.

Google's stated maximum is 32,000 gallons a day, which is domestic use: restrooms, kitchens, cleaning. The cooling is closed-loop air-cooled, so it does not evaporate water the way cooling towers do. Two things that number does not cover: the one-time fill of the closed loop, which is described as relatively large, and construction water for concrete and dust control. Both are worth getting in writing. We put the full public record on Google air-cooled sites, including two that differ by 150 times, on the water page.

The FAQ names 85 dBA as a legal maximum and 65 dBA as a design target at property lines adjacent to homes and agricultural land, with 500-foot building buffers putting the nearest house more than 1,200 feet out. Understand what a design target is: an intention, not an enforceable ceiling, and nothing in Archer County currently requires it.

Also note that dBA weighting understates low-frequency sound, and low-frequency fan noise is the complaint that recurs at data centers elsewhere. If you take one technical point to a meeting, take this one.

An on-site treatment plant west of Three Way Road, conventional activated sludge followed by chlorination, roughly 32,000 gallons a day. Until TCEQ issues a direct stream discharge permit, treated effluent goes to an evaporation pond. After that permit, it would discharge to a stream. Where, and under what limits, is the open question.

We're not going to hand you a number, because the honest answer is that the research on large industrial neighbors is mixed and highly location-specific, and no one has studied Archer County. Making a claim we can't support would cost this group its credibility on the points we can prove. If your value drops, the protest process through the Archer County Appraisal District is your remedy, and it is worth knowing how it works.

Texas counties generally have no zoning authority over unincorporated land. The Archer County Attorney has stated plainly that the county cannot impose a moratorium and that one would not stop construction anyway. This frustrates everybody, and it is still the law. Energy spent demanding it is energy not spent on the permits that are actually open.

Partly, and it's worth being clear-eyed about the trade. The county kept its full tax base and sent an unmistakable message. But under Texas law, the abatement agreement is also the vehicle a county uses to attach binding conditions: noise limits, water terms, clawbacks, inspection rights. Denying it means no such contract exists. County officials said as much before the vote.

Reasonable neighbors disagree about whether that was the right call. What is not in dispute is that our remaining leverage now sits with state agencies.

The county attorney cited Government Code 551.087 and Tax Code 312.003, which allow closed deliberation on economic development negotiations. Those provisions permit closed sessions; they do not require them. Commissioner Todd Herring said on the record that he was tired of it.

No. We use the same services these buildings run. Our position is narrow: a facility this size, this close to homes, should operate under enforceable conditions, pay its own way, and be decided in public. If those three things happen, we will have done our job whatever gets built.

Yes, and we'd rather you check our numbers than nod along. Every figure on this site is sourced to a public document you can open yourself, and if you find an error we will correct it and say so. A landowner has a right to sell, and neighbors have a right to know what happens next door. Those aren't opposites.

FILL IN. Real names and a local address go here. Anonymous opposition gets dismissed as outsiders. We are neighbors in Archer County, Lakeside City, and Wichita Falls, funded by nobody, run out of our own kitchens.

Check them. Every number on the project page comes from the Project Raptor FAQ dated April 28, 2026, which the county published and we've mirrored. Meeting descriptions come from the commissioners court minutes and local reporting. If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it in public.