Arkansas local moratoria
Every local infrastructure moratorium in the inventory for Arkansas, current through August 19, 2026.
4 instruments — 3 in force, 0 pending, 1 past.
State policy is tracked separately: 7 actions (7 bills) in state_legislation.csv. These are not included in the local count above.
| Jurisdiction | Type | Enacted | Sectors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carroll County | County | 2026-06-16 | data center, cryptocurrency mining | 🟢 Active |
| Harrison | City | 2023-05-30 | data center, cryptocurrency mining | 🔴 Rescinded |
| Russellville | City | 2026-07-16 | data center | 🟢 Active |
| Union County | County | 2026-06-30 | data center | 🟢 Active |
Detailed entries
Carroll County
- Type: County
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: 2026-06-16 (Carroll County Quorum Court unanimous adoption of Emergency Ordinance 2026-17)
- Normalized date:
2026-06-16(exact) - Duration: Immediate 12-month moratorium from adoption
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center, cryptocurrency mining
- Moratorium ID:
ar-carroll-county-2026 - Legal basis: Emergency Ordinance 2026-17
- What prompted it: Immediate pause on high-impact industrial and high-intensity digital infrastructure facilities (reported by contemporary coverage to include data centers, artificial intelligence computing facilities, and cryptocurrency mining facilities) in unincorporated Carroll County while the county develops a permitting and public-notice framework
- Affected projects: —
- Detailed status: Active as of adoption 2026-06-16; a legal notice reproduces the ordinance's title, findings, and beginning text but truncates the displayed text after Article 2, so a complete signed county copy was not located. [VERIFY] [VERIFY primary source (news-only evidence) not confirmed at confidence 0.65 in the 2026-07 refresh]
- Outcome: —
Harrison
- Type: City
- Status: 🔴 Rescinded
- Date enacted: 2023-05-30
- Normalized date:
2023-05-30(exact) - Duration: One year or until specific land-use standards were developed, whichever occurred first
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center, cryptocurrency mining
- Moratorium ID:
ar-harrison-2023 - Legal basis: Ordinance 1515, "An Ordinance Imposing a Temporary Moratorium on Data Centers and Crypto Mining Facilities in the City of Harrison, Arkansas"
- What prompted it: Green Digital conditional-use application; Arkansas Data Centers Act of 2023; zoning code did not list data centers or crypto mining facilities; concerns over electricity use, greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, e-waste, noise, and local impacts
- Affected projects: Green Digital / Metahash crypto-mining data center; Chamber timeline reports a 10 MW Entergy contract and estimated $2.5 million capital investment
- Detailed status: Repealed; Harrison City Council voted 6-2 to repeal Ordinance 1515 at a specially called meeting on Tuesday, 2023-11-28, on a motion by Council Member Mitch Magness, seconded by Council Member Joel Williams (councilors Jeremy Ragland and Wayne Cone voted no). City Attorney Nancy Cartwright recommended repeal as a litigation precaution tied to a federal court matter involving Green Digital and the state's data-mining protections; the council also amended its noise ordinance the same night (Ordinance 1516). No separate numbered repeal ordinance for Ordinance 1515 itself was identified in the Harrison Daily Times' contemporaneous account of the meeting, and the city's own ordinance/clerk portal (harrisonar.gov) is behind a bot-protection challenge page that could not be bypassed to check the clerk's ordinance index directly.
- Outcome: Moratorium was removed after officials concluded it increased legal exposure under the state "right to mine" framework; later state Acts 173 and 174 of 2024 restored more local and state regulatory authority over crypto mining
Russellville
- Type: City
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: 2026-07-16 (City Council amended a proposed 18-month moratorium to six months by a 6-2 vote, then adopted the amended ordinance by another 6-2 vote)
- Normalized date:
2026-07-16(exact) - Duration: Six-month moratorium as amended and adopted; originally proposed as an 18-month moratorium in a June 16, 2026 councilmember proposal
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center
- Moratorium ID:
ar-russellville-2026 - Legal basis: City Council ordinance (instrument number not confirmed); creates a temporary committee to recommend regulations
- What prompted it: Pause on acceptance, processing, and approval of applications for data center development, construction, or siting within city limits; officials said no active data center proposal was known
- Affected projects: —
- Detailed status: Adopted 2026-07-16; the signed ordinance, ordinance number, precise effective date, and sunset date were not posted in the city's ordinance archive as of compilation. [VERIFY] [VERIFY instrument number not confirmed at confidence 0.6 in the 2026-07 refresh]
- Outcome: —
Union County
- Type: County
- Status: 🟢 Active
- Date enacted: 2026-06-30 (Union County Quorum Court unanimous adoption of Ordinance 1795 at an emergency meeting); reported to run 2026-07-10 through 2027-07-09
- Normalized date:
2026-06-30(exact) - Duration: One-year moratorium, reported to run from 2026-07-10 through 2027-07-09
- Current end date:
— - Sectors: data center
- Moratorium ID:
ar-union-county-2026 - Legal basis: Ordinance 1795, adopted with an emergency clause
- What prompted it: Pause on new data center development in Union County following resident concerns about electricity, water, transparency, and use of public resources
- Affected projects: —
- Detailed status: Active per local reporting; a signed or codified copy of Ordinance 1795 was not located online, so the effective dates and duration rely on the local news report. [VERIFY] [VERIFY primary source (news-only evidence) not confirmed at confidence 0.55 in the 2026-07 refresh]
- Outcome: —
Source: moratorium_inventory.csv · Methodology · Codebook.