1+ hour, 31+ min ago  (1346+ words) The rapid expansion of hyperscale data centers is far outstripping efforts to regulate them in Missouri and other states. As a result, communities are responding with hastily called moratoriums and divisive local elections to address the massive industrial facilities popping…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (709+ words) At the end of a nearly two-hour meeting punctuated by audible groans from the audience and at least one justice of the peace so upset she appeared to walk off stage to compose herself, the Pulaski County Quorum Court voted…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (154+ words) Google is holding a secret meeting at First United Methodist church on Wednesday to answer questions about their data center. You are not invited. Arkansas Times Arkansas" newest corporate citizen, the California-based tech behemoth that has become synonymous with search…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago  (99+ words) Arkansas Times There's a fight brewing in Central Arkansas over hyperscale data centers that power artificial intelligence. Many residents are furious about two such facilities greenlit for Pulaski County, including one to be built by AVAIO Digital outside of Wrightsville…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago  (430+ words) Wendell Griffen will try again to put the brakes on a proposed data center being planned for the Wrightsville area. Griffen, the Democratic candidate for county judge of Pulaski County, sent out a proposed ordinance on Thursday, calling for a…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago  (47+ words) Little Rock passes modest data center regulations, but the burgeoning anti- data center movement is still raring for a fight Arkansas Times After an extremely long Little Rock City Board meeting Tuesday night, city directors voted unanimously to pass Mayor…...

3+ week, 17+ hour ago  (340+ words) Mayor Frank Scott Jr. announced this week that he's working to pass citywide regulations on data centers in Little Rock." While the Little Rock mayor's office has yet to release final ordinance language, but framework language for any regulations has…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (479+ words) Editor's note: Sanjana Koneru, a high school student in Central Arkansas, offers these observations and cautions about the state's changing landscape. A data center is an unimpressive thing to look at." They lack the smokestacks and cinematic sense of industry…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (60+ words) Arkansas Times After a lengthy debate on a slew of resolutions and ordinances aimed at regulating data center projects coming to Pulaski County, the Quorum Court punted the issue to the Planning Department to draw up an ordinance, under concerns…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (433+ words) Is having lots of followers on Tik Tok an excuse to be absolutely awful? A riotous coterie of Little Rock influencers seemed to assume as much during the Arthur's Prime Steakhouse Mother's Day fracas heard around the world. If you're…...