Arkansas index · last changed 13 September 2026

Arkansas data centers: what the public record shows.

Selected source-linked records are published below. This is not a complete inventory of Arkansas data centers.

4 sourced policy records for Arkansas ↓Facility register: 14 records · by county →1 published DataCenterData record · evidence status shown per row11 licensed directory leads · not independently verifiedThese counts overlap and are not added together

Explore Arkansas

Map, listings and checked facts.

Start with 11 licensed source leads, then inspect the separate public-evidence layer below. Licensed rows are not independently verified and are not a statewide census.

Arkansas map

Reported locations in Arkansas

11 licensed rows · 10 source localities · 6 map targets

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AR4 licensed rows in the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR Metro Area · 3 source locality labels · opens the Arkansas interactive map · symbol offset slightly from its projected anchor for readability4Bentaus Texarkana AI Data Center (Chadbourne Ranch site) · 1 licensed row · approximate source coordinates · symbol offset slightly from its projected anchor for readability2 licensed rows in the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR Metro Area · 2 source locality labels · opens the Arkansas interactive map · symbol offset slightly from its projected anchor for readability2Clarksville · 1 licensed row · approximate source coordinates · symbol offset slightly from its projected anchor for readabilityGum Springs · 1 licensed row · approximate source coordinates · symbol offset slightly from its projected anchor for readability2 licensed rows in the Jonesboro area · 2 source locality labels · opens the Arkansas interactive map2
Source-reported points; some are approximate. Not parcel boundaries. Exact Approximate or representative Bounded nearby groupA number on a marker is the count of licensed rows it holds.Licensed layer only (Compute Atlas, source data through 14 October 2026). The interactive map lists 15 data-center source listings here across licensed, operator and DataCenterData layers (12 with a map point); 15 with government registry records. Source listings are not distinct sites.5 symbols are offset slightly for readability; thin connectors retain their projected anchors. Open the interactive map for source coordinates.
Browse 6 mapped areas as links
Map sources and method

The state outline is adapted from the U.S. Census Bureau 2025 cartographic boundary file. Facility coordinates are adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Outline and markers use one geographic projection before any explicitly disclosed readability offset. Exact singleton source anchors are never moved. A one-kilometre boundary tolerance prevents the simplified 1:20,000,000 outline from hiding legitimate border-area source points; farther conflicts are disclosed, not clamped. DataCenterData groups source-reported city coordinates only within a bounded map radius; the outline does not validate a facility record. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).

11 licensed rows8 reported city labels10 eligible organization labels
4source-reported operational3source-reported proposed3source-reported under construction1source-reported cancelled

Browse all 11 rows below. Licensed rows are not independently verified and remain separate from the checked public-evidence layer.

Official metro areasMemphis, TN-MS-AR 15 mapped listings (all states, all layers)Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR 5 mapped listingsFayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR 2 mapped listingsJonesboro, AR 1 mapped listingTexarkana, TX-AR 1 mapped listing (all states, all layers)
Little Rock 2Bentonville 1Clarksville 1Conway 1Fayetteville 1Gum Springs 1Jonesboro 1West Memphis 1
Counties in the facility registerBenton 1Clark 1Craighead 1Crittenden 2Faulkner 1Johnson 1Miller 1Pulaski 3Washington 1
Google 2AVAIO Digital Partners 1Bentaus 1DC Devco LLC 1ForgeLight Ventures, LLC 1OzarksGo, LLC 1Ritter Communications 1Serverfarm 1
  1. AVAIO Digital Leo Campus

    AVAIO Digital Partners

    145th Street · Pulaski County · Arkansas

    source-reported proposedReported planned 1,000 MWSource updated 29 September 2026approximate location
    View lead →Facility record →dcd-dir-000113
  2. Bentaus Texarkana AI Data Center (Chadbourne Ranch site)

    Bentaus

    Miller County · Arkansas

    source-reported proposedReported planned 200 MWSource updated 15 September 2026approximate location
    View lead →Facility record →dcd-dir-000185
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Separate layer

Also listed by operators

Sites that operators list on their own websites and that are not rows in the licensed directory above. They are kept apart and never added to the licensed rows.

1 operator-listed sites (mixed units; not added to licensed rows) in Arkansas →

Arkansas evidence at a glance

A few checked sites

Selected public evidence, not a statewide census. Each row shows whether it is independently source-linked, attributed, or unresolved; licensed leads remain separate.

Published project / campus
1
Published facility / building
0
Attributed or unresolved rows
0
Licensed directory leads
11 not independently verified
Capacity boundary stated
0 of 1 published DataCenterData rows
Review timing
Audit through 11 September 2026 · next 12 March 2027
Known coverage gap

No Department of Finance and Administration list of data center exemption certificates located.

Browse all 11 Arkansas licensed leads → · Why these counts differ →

Campuses

1 campus record. Names are as they appear on each record page.

Campuses published for Arkansas
Record / rolesStatusCapacity / scalePrimary evidence
Google West Memphis Campus constructioncampus UnknownNo independently supported figureNo primary-source critical IT capacity, approved utility-service capacity or measured-load figure was established. Google locating new data center in West Memphis, Arkansas →Gov. record

Where the records were checked

Statewide audit pending

A few checked sites

This is not a list of every data center in the state, and the number here is not a count of them. There are almost certainly more.

Statewide coverage is not complete. The records below are sourced; a full statewide count has not been published.

State research audit window ended 11 September 2026. Individual records and claims below show their own evidence dates and may be newer.

Next scheduled coverage review: 12 March 2027.

1 independently source-linked project/campus record; 0 independently source-linked facility/building records; 0 attributed or unresolved rows. These counts use different units and must not be added together.

Source families checked, selected records and remaining gaps

These notes name selected records, say which kinds of public evidence were checked and show what remains missing. They do not add anything to the published counts.

Local evidence by place

Licensed and operator listings, reviewed records, answers and local policy for each place. Listings overlap and are not added; a place without a line here has no published local evidence.

No local evidence answer, reviewed record or local policy record is published for Bentonville, Clarksville, Conway, Fayetteville, Gum Springs, Jonesboro, Little Rock. Their listings above are source listings to investigate. No statewide evidence answer is published for Arkansas either; statewide rules are under Policy tracker below.

Policy tracker

Arkansas policy records

4 sourced records are associated with this state context. They are grouped below as current, pending and nonbinding, and history, and each card shows its relevant date. These are not facility counts and do not cover every locality.

Current 4 records

Recorded as in effect on the dataset date. This does not mean every project in a represented state is restricted or approved.

Enacted legislation or regulation

Act 173 amendments to the Arkansas Data Centers Act

In effect · Arkansas · State

Effective: 3 May 2024

Issuing authority: Arkansas General Assembly

Act 173 of 2024, approved on 3 May 2024 with an emergency clause, amends the Arkansas Data Centers Act of 2023 to require noise-reduction techniques for digital asset mining businesses and to bar prohibited foreign parties from holding interests in them.

Read the sourced record · Primary source

Incentive or explicitly supportive policy

Act 819 of 2023 data center sales and use tax exemption

In effect · Arkansas · State

Source document: 13 April 2023

Issuing authority: Arkansas General Assembly

Arkansas Act 819 of 2023 created a sales and use tax exemption for qualified data centers covering equipment, eligible construction and operating costs, related services and electricity, subject to investment, payroll and cost-benefit conditions and an application to the Arkansas Economic Development Commission.

Read the sourced record · Primary source

Federal and multistate

Federal and multistate instruments that cover all or part of Arkansas

These federal, reliability-organization and multistate grid or utility instruments are stored once and listed for every jurisdiction they name. They do not add to the record count, in-effect total or map shading for Arkansas. Territorial coverage does not establish that an instrument applies to any particular site, utility or project.

Enacted legislation or regulation · Listed coverage: part of Arkansas

Southwest Power Pool: Conditional High Impact Large Load Service accepted by FERC (ER26-1323)

In effect · Southwest Power Pool region (multistate) · Regional grid

Effective: 1 July 2026

Issuing authority: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

On 5 June 2026 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission accepted Southwest Power Pool tariff revisions, effective 1 July 2026, that add Conditional High Impact Large Load Service, a non-firm transmission service that can serve a large load such as a data center before long-term firm service is available, for up to seven years and subject to curtailment.

Read the sourced record · Primary source

Enacted legislation or regulation · Listed coverage: part of Arkansas

Southwest Power Pool: High Impact Large Load study processes accepted by FERC (ER26-247)

In effect · Southwest Power Pool region (multistate) · Regional grid

Effective: 15 January 2026

Issuing authority: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

On 14 January 2026 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission accepted Southwest Power Pool tariff revisions, effective 15 January 2026, that add a High Impact Large Load study process and a generation assessment for those loads.

Read the sourced record · Primary source

Open the Arkansas policy comparison

Review dates: the 4 Arkansas records were last checked 23 September 2026. 4 scheduled reviews are overdue as of the tracker date 3 November 2026: Act 548 of 2025 amendments to the data center sales and use tax exemption, Act 173 amendments to the Arkansas Data Centers Act, Arkansas Data Centers Act of 2023 (Act 851), Act 819 of 2023 data center sales and use tax exemption (last checked 23 September 2026, review due 23 October 2026). Overdue means not re-read yet, not changed. No single record, and not this list, establishes complete statewide policy coverage.