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Data centers in Grant County, Arkansas: 1 project mapped
"We don't want to see it, hear it or smell it," Justice of the Peace Mike Nevens, one of the county judge's advisers, said of the data center proposed outside Sheridan, the Grant County seat. It is being put together by Clean Cloud Energy, an Austin, Texas company that has spent more than a year trying to find an end user for a 753-acre site. Materials presented to the county described a data center needing about 500 megawatts of electricity paired with a solar facility of about 400 megawatts, with combined construction costs estimated at $5 billion to $6 billion. The Arkansas Times reported in July 2026 that the data center plan had grown to 800 megawatts after the Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. found additional electricity providers.
In October 2025 the Grant County Quorum Court passed two nonbinding resolutions supporting the data center and the solar farm and letting the county consider payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreements with up to a 65% tax abatement. The resolutions do not commit the county to any final agreement, and the court set aside money to hire an attorney to represent the county. Deltaplex News reported in December 2025 that the project had been the subject of legal action since it was first announced. At a later monthly meeting, County Judge Randy Pruitt told justices the project remained on hold because no end user had been confirmed.
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At the Quorum Court's July 20, 2026 meeting, Pruitt disclosed, after being asked directly, that EdgeConneX, a data center developer owned by EQT Infrastructure, had signed a letter of intent with Clean Cloud in late June. He said he had been asked to keep the name quiet. "That was fine, but I told them that if someone asked me, I wasn't going to lie and say I didn't know anything," Pruitt told the Arkansas Times. The letter of intent gives EdgeConneX 120 days for due diligence, with an optional 30 more. Pruitt said the county had not negotiated with the company and that Clean Cloud described it as a potential buyer. The Arkansas Times put the project's value at $8 billion to $12 billion.
The county has published the terms it would demand. Nevens went on: "We don't want it to ruin our water table, we don't want it to raise electric rates for our citizens, and we don't want it to ruin our internet." A company meeting those conditions would be considered for a 20% abatement. To reach 65%, Pruitt said, the operator would have to pay close to $57 million up front, including $7.5 million to cut $1,000 from each county property owner's taxes, plus $12.4 million a year on top of the remaining 35% of property taxes. Pruitt said no Grant County official had signed a nondisclosure agreement. According to the Arkansas Times, the proposed closed-loop cooling system would use about as much water a year as a handful of average-sized homes, and electric company officials have said the data center would not by itself cause a rate increase. The paper described the proposal as having at times become an emotional topic in the Sheridan area.
Data center projects on record in Grant County
Grouped by the town each site sits in. The report above may name projects that have no record here yet.
Sheridan1
| Project | Company | Status | Power | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grant County Data CenterSheridanExact site not confirmed | Clean Cloud Energy | Proposed | 800 MW |
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