The data center fight in Harrison, Arkansas
As of September 27, 2026, Harrison, Arkansas rescinded its data center moratorium (action taken May 30, 2023).
Status is derived, not stored — a pause with a documented end date flips to Expired on its own — and the source is right next to the claim.
Status today
Ordinance 1515: moratorium on data centers and crypto mining. Rescinded Nov 28, 2023 by 6-2 vote at special meeting, as litigation precaution tied to federal court case involving Green Digital and state 'right to mine' protections. Arkansas later passed Acts 173/174 (2024) restoring local regulatory authority.
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read 2026-09-11
An expiry date is the earliest a pause could have ended — extensions are common, so confirm with the clerk before citing it.
Recent news
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Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 3 headlines archived.
What to do next
- Questions to ask at the hearing — force specific answers onto the record.
- Estimate the impact — electricity, water, and rate pressure for any facility size in Arkansas.
- Model CBA clauses — copy-paste language communities have actually won.
- Arkansas briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts, and every fight in the state.
Nearby in Arkansas
- Carroll County (25 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-06-17
- Madison County (38 mi) — Enactedexpires 2029-08-31
- Benton County (64 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-02-10
- Russellville (66 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-01-31
- Independence County (93 mi) — Enactedexpires 2031-08-11
- Pulaski County (112 mi) — Rejectedterm not documented
- Little Rock (112 mi) — Rejectedterm not documented
- Union County (207 mi) — Enactedexpires 2027-07-09
All 9 tracked actions in Arkansas are on the state page.
As of August 2026 · changes weekly — re-check before citing
Illustrative rather than exhaustive — dozens of localities churn weekly, and this tracks the ones we have read a source for. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to the ordinance, the enacting body's own page, or a datable report of the vote, and were read on that date. Rows marked *unverified* came from bulk compilation and have not been checked against a primary source — the locality, the year, and the status may all be off. Verify one of those with the town clerk before citing it as precedent. **Expiry is derived, not asserted.** A row with a documented end date flips to *Expired* on its own once that date passes. A time-limited moratorium whose start date was never documented keeps showing as enacted — that is a known gap, not a claim that it is still in force. Moratoriums are also routinely extended, so an expiry date is the earliest it could have ended, not proof that it did.
Part of the U.S. data center moratorium tracker — open data, CC BY 4.0.