AVAIO Digital is developing a large-scale artificial intelligence data center campus near Little Rock, Arkansas, covering approximately 760 acres in Pulaski County. The project's first construction phase is scheduled to begin in early 2026, with initial operations projected by June 2027, according to Data Center Knowledge's May 2026 developments roundup.
The facility has secured 150 megawatts of grid power from Entergy Arkansas, with total campus capacity projected to reach up to one gigawatt through a combination of grid-supplied and on-site generated electricity. The campus is designed to support cloud computing and artificial intelligence workloads.
Arkansas represents an increasingly active market for data center investment. Entergy Arkansas's grid infrastructure in the Little Rock region supports the high-reliability power requirements that hyperscale and AI-optimized campuses require, and available land at scale at competitive cost makes the state attractive to large-format developers.
A one-gigawatt data center campus, if fully built out, would rank among the largest single-site facilities in the United States. Projects at this scale typically develop in phases over several years, with initial infrastructure commitments used to anchor financing and utility agreements before subsequent phases are approved.
AVAIO Digital has been targeting large-format sites in secondary US markets outside the established Northern Virginia and Dallas corridors, focusing on regions with power availability and lower land costs.
Source: Data Center Knowledge -- https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/data-center-construction/new-data-center-developments-may-2026