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Project Raptor (proposed Google data center campus)
Google (per presentation and FAQ posted on the county site); Ch. 312 applicant Dynamo, Michael Monfort, Manager (minutes); TCEQ wastewater permits sought by Dynamo Ventures LLC (TCEQ applications; county resolution; Archer County News). The TCEQ applications list a Dynamo Ventures permitting contact with a google.com email address, and their engineering drawings carry file paths under "Google Data Centers" (TCEQ application files); no opened Google statement names Dynamo
- Status
- Proposed (county denied tax abatement)
- Developer / parties
- Google (per presentation and FAQ posted on the county site); Ch. 312 applicant Dynamo, Michael Monfort, Manager (minutes); TCEQ wastewater permits sought by Dynamo Ventures LLC (TCEQ applications; county resolution; Archer County News). The TCEQ applications list a Dynamo Ventures permitting contact with a google.com email address, and their engineering drawings carry file paths under "Google Data Centers" (TCEQ application files); no opened Google statement names Dynamo
- Location
- Off Three Way Road, near Wichita Falls, Archer County
- Size
- About 2,800 acres, four planned buildings; Google requested 1,000 MW, subject to ERCOT approval, with a small initial portion hoped for in 2028 and the rest in 2031 (company FAQ prepared for the Commissioners Court)
- Investment
- $1B estimated capital investment; 50 estimated new direct jobs (company slides, Apr 27 2026)
- Reported benefits
- Company FAQ: max daily water use 32,000 gallons with closed-loop air-cooled chillers; Google to pay water connection costs; water infrastructure improvements estimated at $3.5M–$4.5M
- Concerns / impacts
- Residents at the Jun 22 2026 hearing opposed the abatement and raised road, water-rate and land-use concerns (minutes); county resolution cites demands on water, electric infrastructure, roads, drainage, wastewater and emergency services (Times Record News)
- Last verified
- 2026-10-06
Milestones
- Apr 27–28 2026 Project Raptor slides and FAQ posted on the Archer County website (company documents)
- Jun 22 2026 Commissioners Court unanimously denied the Ch. 312 abatement and reinvestment zone application dated Jun 3 2026, submitted by Michael Monfort, Manager of Dynamo (minutes, official)
- Jun 9 2026 TCEQ received Dynamo Ventures LLC's TPDES application WQ0017005001 to discharge up to a 95,000 gallon-per-day average of treated domestic wastewater to an unnamed tributary of Pecan Creek, then Lake Wichita
- the notice states TCEQ's Executive Director found it administratively complete (TCEQ notice, official)
- Jun 9 2026 transmittal letter for TLAP application WQ0016998001, disposal of the same volume by evaporation on 4 acres until the discharge permit is approved (TCEQ application file). Both predate the Governor's Sep 21 2026 directive to TCEQ
- Sep 28 2026 agenda lists resolutions on TCEQ permits WQ0017005001, WQ0016998001 and 183845L001 (agenda, official)
- the court adopted a resolution opposing both wastewater permits for the "Project Raptor" data center proposed by Dynamo Ventures LLC on a 2,800-acre site near 3-Way Road and asking TCEQ for a public meeting in the county, and a second resolution asking TCEQ to reevaluate City Concrete, Inc.'s concrete batch plant air standard permit registration 183845L001 near 3-Way Road, which it says is "believed to be associated with a proposed data center project" (resolutions, filed Sep 29, official). News reports described both as tied to the Google project (Archer County News; Times Record News). Sep 28 minutes not yet posted as of Oct 6
Related records
Times Record News (via Galveston Daily News): county resolutions oppose wastewater permits that could send treated effluent toward Lake Wichita.
Source: galvnews.com ↗Archer County News: court approved resolutions Sep 28 opposing TCEQ wastewater and air permits tied to the proposed Google data center.
Source: archercountynews.com ↗Resolution opposes TCEQ wastewater permits WQ0016998001 and WQ0017005001 for Dynamo Ventures' Project Raptor data center; requests public meeting.
Source: co.archer.tx.us ↗Resolution asks TCEQ to reevaluate City Concrete batch plant permit 183845L001, "believed to be associated" with a data center project.
Source: co.archer.tx.us ↗Minutes: court unanimously denies Ch. 312 abatement and reinvestment zone application (dated Jun 3) for the Raptor Project, submitted by Dynamo's manager.
Source: co.archer.tx.us ↗TCEQ receives Dynamo Ventures TPDES application WQ0017005001: up to 95,000 gpd treated wastewater toward Pecan Creek and Lake Wichita.
Source: tceq.texas.gov ↗County-posted Project Raptor FAQ: Google requested 1,000 MW for ~2,800-acre, four-building campus; power subject to ERCOT approval.
Source: co.archer.tx.us ↗Sources
- Official record co.archer.tx.us
- Official record co.archer.tx.us
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- News report archercountynews.com
- News report galvnews.com
- Official record co.archer.tx.us
- Official record co.archer.tx.us
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- Official record tceq.texas.gov
- Official record tceq.texas.gov
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