The Connecticut-based company behind a data center planned in Arkansas sued local officials in federal court Thursday over regulations targeting projects like it, claiming the county didn’t have the authority to enact such limits and that the state’s open meetings law was circumvented.
The 38-page lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court of Eastern Arkansas, accused Pulaski County of enacting regulations targeting AVAIO Digital’s planned data center that infringe on the federal government’s authority to regulate interstate electrical transmission and commerce.
AVAIO asked the court for an injunction preventing the regulations from being applied to its project, monetary damages and for the disclosure of public records it said had been withheld from them…