The data center fight in Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock has a rejected data center moratorium on this tracker. 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
18-month permitting halt on hyperscale data centers (250,000+ sq ft or 75+ MW), including a planned Google facility at the Port of Little Rock; failed 4-4 with two directors absent. The city's June 3, 2026 data-center regulations (no groundwater cooling, noise monitors) remain in effect regardless.
Source
read 2026-08-12
An expiry date is the earliest a pause could have ended — extensions are common, so confirm with the clerk before citing it.
Recent news
- Little Rock city director defends her vote against moratorium on data center permits
- Little Rock unanimously approves data center ordinance | What to know
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 2 headlines archived.
Where the decision gets made
Board of Directors — City ordinances, permits and zoning. Passed data-center regulations (groundwater cooling ban, noise monitors, generator-testing limits) June 3, 2026; a separate 18-month permitting moratorium on hyperscale facilities — including a planned Google data center at the Port of Little Rock — failed on a 4-4 vote August 4, 2026.
Meets: Regular meetings 1st & 3rd Tuesday, 6:00 p.m.; Agenda meetings 2nd & 4th Tuesday, 4:00 p.m.
Where: City Hall, 500 W. Markham Street, Little Rock, AR 72201
Public comment: See the board's published meeting agendas for the public-comment process for a specific meeting.
Read from the official page on 2026-08-12. Meeting details change — confirm before you go.
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.
Elsewhere in Arkansas
- Pulaski County — Rejected
- Independence County — Enactedexpires 2031-08-11
- Russellville — Enactedexpires 2027-01-31
- Union County — Enactedexpires 2027-07-09
- Carroll County — Enactedexpires 2027-06-17
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.