EPISODE · May 26, 2026 · 34 MIN
Arkansas In The Crosshairs — $20 Billion and Nobody Asked You
from Echoes From The Edge · host echoesfromtheedge
In just 100 days between October 2025 and January 2026 Arkansas went from a state with five small data centers to the announced destination for over $20 billion in hyperscale development. Nobody put it on a ballot. Nobody held a statewide public hearing. The legislature fast-tracked the permits, the governor signed the incentives, and the commerce secretary said they didn't even recruit them — they just came. In Episode 6 Kiler Davenport asks the question nobody in Little Rock wants to answer: who gave them permission?
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Twenty billion dollars worth of data centers descended on Arkansas in 100 days — no public vote, no statewide hearing, no recruitment — just a signed incentive package and a compressed permitting timeline that cut environmental review from 18 months to 6. Episode 6 of the Data Center Truth Series brings the national crisis home to Arkansas.
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