AVAIO Digital Partners announced Avaio Digital Leo, a 760 acre AI ready data center and power campus off Interstate 530 in Pulaski County, described as the largest economic investment in Arkansas history. The first phase carries a 6 billion dollar price tag with construction scheduled to begin in early 2026 and initial operation by June 2027, and the company says full buildout could exceed 21 billion dollars and grow power demand from an initial 150 megawatts contracted with Entergy Arkansas to as much as 1 gigawatt. The project is expected to create more than 500 permanent jobs over five years plus thousands of construction jobs.
A Delaware shell company called Willowbend Capital bought about 380 acres at the Port of Little Rock for roughly 23 million dollars to build a 300,000 square foot, 1 billion dollar data center along the Arkansas River, a project expected to create about 50 jobs. Arkansas news outlets reported in January 2026 that Google is the technology company behind Willowbend, following months in which the developer's identity was kept confidential during local approvals. The Port of Little Rock project emerged alongside a competing, related proposal in Conway, with local officials saying the two central Arkansas cities may effectively be competing for the same company's investment.
An operating data center site in Pulaski County, AR, mapped in OpenStreetMap and the IM3 Open Source Data Center Atlas. About 32,000 square feet of building is mapped.
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