id: leo-pulaski
name: AVAIO Project Leo
status: announced
location:
  country: US
  state: AR
  county: Pulaski
metrics:
  land_acres: 760
  investment_usd: 6000000000
first_seen: '2026-07-07'
last_updated: '2026-07-07'
confidence: medium
sources:
- url: https://talkbusiness.net/2026/02/hyperscale-data-centers-come-to-arkansas/
  title: Hyperscale data centers come to Arkansas
  publisher: Talk Business & Politics
  date: 2026-02
  note: Single source for all Project Leo attributes.
signals:
- sig-20260706-project-leo-acres
- sig-20260706-project-leo-developer
- sig-20260706-project-leo-investment
- sig-20260706-project-leo-status
notes: AVAIO Project Leo near Little Rock, Pulaski County, AR. Site located "near I-530 south
  of Little Rock" per source — not clearly inside the Little Rock city limits, so resolved
  to county precedence (Pulaski) rather than asserting Little Rock as locality. Developer
  reported as "AVAIO Digital Partners" (sig-...-developer); no operators.yml id exists — developer
  AVAIO Digital Partners needs an operators.yml entry, so the developer field is omitted rather
  than invented. investment_usd recorded as $6B initial; source states "up to $21 billion
  at full buildout" — full-buildout figure kept here in notes, not in the metric, since it
  is a phased/conditional maximum. Single-source (medium confidence).