Arkansas’ most populous county approved a yearlong pause on new data centers, but critics expressed frustration that the moratorium carves out one of the projects that’s prompted public backlash.
The Pulaski County Quorum Court narrowly voted Tuesday to exempt Connecticut-based AVAIO Digital’s planned data center near Wrightsville from the temporary moratorium. The center is one of two in the county that’s prompted a backlash in the Little Rock area, with the city taking up new regulations next week.
Local elected officials and business leaders support the two data center projects as job creators and tax revenue generators…