North Little Rock AR data center zoning regulations (2026)

North Little Rock, Ark. (Pulaski County) — ZONING REGULATIONS FOR DATA CENTERS approved, reported 2026-09-14. INSTRUMENT CHOICE IS THE FEATURE: permanent STANDARDS rather than a moratorium. The regulate-directly cohort is the smaller of the two in this dataset — Latah County ID data center regulations (2026) (groundwater cooling prohibition, water management plan, noise and electrical limits, annual electrical consumption and peak demand reporting), Swatara Township PA data center ordinance (2026) (35-foot height cap, 300-foot residential setback, proof of an electric service provider, traffic study, emergency management plan), Norristown PA data center ordinance (2026), Augusta GA permanent data center ordinance (Sept 2026), Randolph County NC data center restrictions (2026), Patton Township PA data center zoning amendment (2026). REGULATING DIRECTLY AVOIDS THE STRUCTURAL QUESTIONS MORATORIA RAISE — duration reasonableness, the findings several states require, active-study showings, and the point at which a 'temporary' pause becomes a de facto prohibition adopted without the process a prohibition requires (flagged on Independence County AR five-year data center moratorium (2026) and Hurlock MD three-year data center moratorium (2026)). ARKANSAS NOW HOLDS THE TWO POLES OF THE AVAILABLE RESPONSE, ADOPTED WEEKS APART: Independence County AR five-year data center moratorium (2026), a FIVE-YEAR county moratorium and the longest local pause indexed anywhere, and NORTH LITTLE ROCK, the state's sixth-largest city, adopting standards instead. Also recorded in the ledger from Arkansas: legislative questioning of Entergy over Google data center power costs and ratepayer impact, and Entergy Arkansas dropping a lawsuit over a newspaper's publication of data center agreement details — the latter a press-freedom and contract-transparency matter held for a readable source. THE REGULATIONS' CONTENT IS NOT ESTABLISHED: no setback, height, noise, water, district-placement or permitting standard is reported, so `strength` is moderate provisionally and NO REQUIREMENT MAY BE CITED. NOT ESTABLISHED: the vote, the exact date, the ordinance number, and every substantive standard.