Construction is underway in 2024 on data centers in Ashburn, Virginia, where a number of the energy-intensive facilities are located. (Photo by Gerville/Getty Images)
If data is the new gold, city leaders in Little Rock and Conway have grabbed their metaphorical picks and pans to join the gold rush, competing — apparently with each other — to land a $1 billion data center that’s being billed as one of the biggest economic development projects in Arkansas history.
The two cities have even offered to forgo two-thirds of the project’s property taxes for the next 30 years…