District 4 Justice of the Peace Julie Blackwood said ordinance is necessary to avoid county vulnerability to data center impacts
Data centers in Wrightsville, Arkansas
Wrightsville has 1 data center on the record; it is proposed. No city rule about data centers is on the record for Wrightsville yet. Pulaski County's own decisions are on the Pulaski County page.
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The data center in Wrightsville
Each row is one site with its stage, its latest dated entry and what its sources disclose. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed.
AVAIO Pulaski County Data Center
Wrightsville, Pulaski County · AVAIO
No dated entry on the record yet.
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power
- 1 GWthird party estimate
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Tenant
- Not disclosed
Where
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1 data center in Wrightsville: proposed. A dashed edge means the exact site is not in the public record; every pin here marks a town or the county.
What was said
Julie Blackwood, JP, says AVAIO will not be grandfathered in and must go through county regulations.
Wendell Griffen, Pulaski County Judge Democratic nominee, helped write the ordinance
Every Arkansas statement, by speaker
1 more statement on this page
The county and nearby counties
Disclosed figures
1 GW power
Power, water, jobs and tax
| Figure | Disclosed total | Disclosed | Not disclosed | Basis | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power | 1 GW | 1 | 0 | 1 third party estimate | |
| Water, stated per day | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record | |
| Water, stated per year | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record | |
| Permanent jobs | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record | |
| Tax each year | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record |
Summed only where a record disclosed the figure; a record with no figure adds nothing and is counted as not disclosed. Water is summed per day and per year separately, as the sources stated it, and never converted. A tax claim given as a range is summed at both ends.
By what the facilities are for
| Use | Records | Power | Water | Jobs | Tax each year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not disclosed | 1 | 1 GW | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Not disclosed: water, jobs, tax each year |
A record that lists several uses counts once under each. Each cell is the sum over the records with that use, disclosed rows only.
What the facilities are for
No source on file states what any of the 1 tracked facility in Wrightsville is for.
How the facilities are cooled
No source on file states how any of the 1 tracked facility in Wrightsville is cooled.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Data centers in Wrightsville, Pulaski County, Arkansas", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/ar/pulaski-county/wrightsville, updated September 25, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Data center records in Wrightsville, Pulaski County, Arkansas", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/ar/pulaski-county/wrightsville. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
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For researchers
- Place id
- us/ar/pulaski-county/wrightsville
- Level
- city
- Census GEOID
- Not disclosed
- Rating value
- Not disclosed
- Scale word
- Not disclosed