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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- AVAIO Digital Partners
- Address and locality
- Pulaski County · Arkansas
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,000 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 15 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000113
What the source record says
Location: off Interstate 530 near 145th Street, Pulaski County; coordinates are approximate for the I-530 corridor south of Little Rock. Named after the Leo constellation. Initial $6B investment may grow to $21B through full build-out. First phase completion targeted June 2027. Campus sits near long-haul fiber routes connecting Dallas, Atlanta, and Memphis. Q1 2026 construction start was planned as of announcement; current construction status unconfirmed as of research date. Fix: energy.source corrected from 'on_site_gas' to 'mixed'; onSiteGenerationMw removed — the 150 MW figure is the Entergy Arkansas grid supply contract, not on-site generation; on-site gas capacity is unquantified in sources. Arkansas's data-center sales-and-use tax exemption (Act 819 of 2023, expanded by Act 548 of 2025) likely applies given the investment scale, but no AVAIO-specific incentive award has been published.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2026-01 · reported proposed
AVAIO Digital announces $6B+ AI-ready data center campus in Pulaski County; Governor Sanders describes it as largest economic investment in Arkansas history; construction targeted Q1 2026 start
Sources and attribution
- AVAIO Digital Announces New Large-Scale AI-Ready Data Center and Power Campus in Little Rock, Arkansas · Arkansas Economic Development Commission
- AVAIO Digital Announces New Large-Scale AI-Ready Data Center and Power Campus in Little Rock, Arkansas · PR Newswire
- Arkansas's most populous county approves data-center moratorium, but with an AVAIO exemption · UALR Public Radio
- Entergy re-submits AVAIO power agreement to Arkansas Public Service Commission · Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- Giga-what?! AVAIO comes clean about big plans in Wrightsville · Arkansas Times
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID avaio-digital-leo-little-rock-ar. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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