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Little Rock Port data center

Little Rock, Pulaski County, AR

ProposedLittle Rock's board authorized an MOU with Willowbend Capital LLC in April 2025; Arkansas Business (Jan. 2026) cites an unnamed source that Google is behind the project, and Action News 5 (Sept. 2026) says Google is exploring a potential Little Rock project
  1. Rumored
  2. Proposed
  3. Approved
  4. Under construction
  5. Operating

An unnamed company represented by Willowbend Capital LLC plans a $1 billion, 300,000-square-foot data center at the Little Rock Port, and Little Rock's Board of Directors adopted a resolution in April 2025 authorizing the mayor to execute a memorandum of understanding for it. In January 2026 a source close to the development told Arkansas Business that Google is the company behind the project.

Stated investment
$1 billion

Key facts

Size & schedule

Floor area300,000 sq ft [1]
Source excerpt
“An unnamed company is looking to build a $1 billion, 300,000-SF data center in Little Rock, according to a resolution adopted by the city's board of directors at a special meeting Tuesday.”
Stated investment$1 billion [1]
Source excerpt
“An unnamed company is looking to build a $1 billion, 300,000-SF data center in Little Rock, according to a resolution adopted by the city's board of directors at a special meeting Tuesday.”
Permanent jobs (promised)50 [1]
source says "about 50 jobs" without specifying permanent or construction
Source excerpt
“The project would create about 50 jobs.”

How big is that? Data center sizes compared with football fields and Central Park.

Local decisions & site

Deciding voteLittle Rock Board of Directors adopted a resolution at a special meeting authorizing Mayor Frank Scott Jr. to sign the city's memorandum of understanding with Willowbend Capital LLC (April 2025) [1]

Figures are as stated by the cited source. Where sources disagree, each figure is shown.

Timeline

  1. Little Rock Board of Directors adopts a resolution authorizing a memorandum of understanding with Willowbend Capital LLC for a $1 billion, 300,000-square-foot data center by an unnamed company [1]

  2. A source close to the development tells Arkansas Business that Google is the company behind the Little Rock Port project [2]

Issues raised

  • Willowbend Capital LLC, led by Michael Montfort, represented the company and has not disclosed Google's involvement [2]
  • The memorandum states additional data center facilities could be built at the site if the "right economic, business, and market conditions exist" [1]
  • Action News 5: "Google is also exploring a second potential data center project in Little Rock." The report does not name the site [3]

Issues are concerns and claims raised by the parties, officials or residents named in the cited sources. They are reported as attributed, not as findings by the Census.

Sources

  1. Little Rock Looks to Host $1B Data Center With Mystery Developer
    Arkansas Business · Apr 29, 2025 · news
  2. Google Is Behind $1B Data Center at Little Rock Port, Source Says
    Arkansas Business · Jan 14, 2026 · news
  3. Lawmakers question West Memphis data center project's impact on Entergy ratepayers
    Action News 5 (WMC) · Sep 17, 2026 · news

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Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Figures may change as records are updated — include the date you retrieved them.

APAData Center Census. (2026). Little Rock Port data center. Retrieved from https://datacentercensus.com/dc/little-rock-port-ar
MLA“Little Rock Port data center.” Data Center Census, Sep 24, 2026, https://datacentercensus.com/dc/little-rock-port-ar.
Linkhttps://datacentercensus.com/dc/little-rock-port-ar

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