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The project is secret. The footprint is not.

A third paper trail · Little Rock, Arkansas

The project is secret. The footprint is not.

Project Boar is still proposed, but the public record is already concrete: a federal notice describes wetlands and streams in the path, a city agreement describes planned utility infrastructure, and a later agenda proposes an exception from Little Rock's hyperscale application pause. That is a disclosure problem before it is a construction story.

What is documented

The U.S. Army Corps notice identifies Willowbend Capital's proposed five-building data center near Fourche Bayou. It says the project would likely draw more than 100 MW and describes proposed filling of about 16.8 acres of wetlands and 6,419 linear feet of streams. Those are project-scale plans, not proof of operation or measured demand.

Little Rock's April 2025 resolution and MOU describe an approximately 300,000-square-foot facility under evaluation, with planned water-supply, sewer and cooling-tower blowdown infrastructure. The August 2026 agenda then listed a proposed clarification that would except that MOU facility from the city's broader hyperscale application pause; the item was deferred.