Scope
Act 851 of the 2023 Regular Session (House Bill 1799) adds a subchapter titled the Arkansas Data Centers Act of 2023. Its statement of intent includes recognising that data centers create jobs, pay taxes and provide economic value. Its operative text concerns digital asset mining businesses, defined as a group of computers working at a single site that consumes more than one megawatt on an average annual basis to generate digital assets. Among the limits it places on local governments, a local government shall not impose a different requirement for a digital asset mining business than is applicable to any requirement for a data center. The act prints APPROVED: 4/13/23.
- Geographic scope
- Arkansas
- Jurisdiction
- State
- Authority type
- Legislature
- Issuing authority
- Arkansas General Assembly
Dates
- Adopted
- 13 April 2023
- Effective
- Effective date not stated in the source
- Scheduled expiration
- None scheduled
- Ended
- Not recorded as ended
- Completion condition
- None stated
- Source document
- 13 April 2023
- Last checked
- 23 September 2026 (earlier than tracker date 5 October 2026; not an automatic status change)
Summary
Act 851 of 2023, approved on 13 April 2023, created the Arkansas Data Centers Act of 2023. Its operative provisions concern digital asset mining businesses, including a rule that a local government may not impose on a digital asset mining business a requirement different from one applicable to a data center. It is not a data-center tax exemption; that is a separate act.
What this does not establish
- The act does not print an effective day, so none is stored.
- The current codified text was not opened. The act's own text numbers the sections 14-1-501 to 14-1-505, while Act 173 of 2024 amends sections numbered 14-1-603 and 14-1-604 of the same Act, so the codified numbering differs from the act text.
- The operative limits fall on local governments and on the Public Service Commission with respect to digital asset mining businesses; the act does not regulate data centers generally.
Unresolved questions
- Whether later acts other than Act 173 of 2024 amended the Arkansas Data Centers Act of 2023.
Relationships
Supersession means a later instrument replaces the earlier legal effect. Repeal links identify the repeal instrument and the measure it ends. A later implementation or related letter is not treated as a replacement unless the record says so.
- Related, not a replacement Act 173 amendments to the Arkansas Data Centers Act (In effect)
Sources
https://arkleg.state.ar.us/Home/FTPDocument?path=%2FACTS%2F2023R%2FPublic%2FACT851.pdf