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ForgeLight Ventures Conway Data Center

Conway, Faulkner County, Arkansas

ProposedOpposedRecord updated September 15, 2026

ForgeLight Ventures Conway Data Center is a proposed data center in Conway, Arkansas (Faulkner County), operated by ForgeLight Ventures, LLC. The public record puts it at a reported $1 billion investment. It faces documented, organized local opposition.

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Facility record

Proposed

Operator: ForgeLight Ventures, LLC
Facility type: Data center
Location: Conway, Faulkner County, AR
Coordinates: 35.0196, -92.5573 (approximate)
Power capacity: Not established from a public source
Land: Not established from a public source
Investment: $1 billion
Announced: Not established from a public source
Utility: Not established from a public source
Cooling: Not established from a public source
Water use: Not established from a public source
Jobs: 50 permanent
Public subsidy: Not established from a public source
Community reception: Opposed
Source confidence: Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

September 2026
Proposed
Community information site states: 'Early stage; annexation, rezoning, and MOU completed, permitting pending.' Source: Conway Data Center (community group)
May 13, 2026
Proposed
Conway residents commented on the proposed 300,000-square-foot, up to $1 billion data center for an unnamed Fortune 100 company, with ForgeLight Ventures LLC - described as a shell company with a Delaware address and no in-state presence - as developer of record. Source: UA Little Rock Public Radio

Opposition and litigation at this site

Yes. Organized local opposition to ForgeLight Ventures Conway Data Center in Conway, Faulkner County, Arkansas is documented in the public record, without a lawsuit on file in the sources we track. Residents packed the Conway City Council meeting of 2026-05-13 in opposition.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: opposed means documented, organized local opposition is the dominant signal on record.

Residents packed the Conway City Council meeting of 2026-05-13 in opposition. Mayor Bart Castleberry said 'any potential data center development in Conway will not happen quickly'; resident Jeremy Rice said 'I still do not have real answers'; a local professor raised that the area already has 'toxic air releases in the 98th percentile nationally.' Water-resource depletion was a recurring concern. A community group maintains a public-information site about the project that is explicitly not affiliated with the city, developer or chamber.

Source: UA Little Rock Public Radio

Notes on the record

Coordinates are the OpenStreetMap point for Conway Municipal Airport at Cantrell Field, whose OSM record places it on Lollie Road - the road named in reporting as the project's location ('Southwest Conway near Lollie Road and the Conway Municipal Airport area'). This is a landmark-level approximation, not a parcel. The end user is an unnamed Fortune 100 company; ForgeLight Ventures LLC is a Delaware shell with no in-state presence, so 'operator' here records the developer of record, not a confirmed operating company. A 300,000-square-foot building size is reported but square footage is not a schema field. A reported 65% tax abatement over 30 years appeared only in a search-result summary of a paywalled trade article that could not be fetched, so no subsidies entry is recorded. Confidence 'reported': the project has an MOU and rezoning but no named end user and no permit.

What the record does not establish, and the document that would

In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.

Power capacity in megawatts
Cooling method and water use
Tax abatements or other public subsidy
Land area
Which utility serves it

Which document closes each gap

Power capacity in megawatts: The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
Cooling method and water use: The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
Tax abatements or other public subsidy: The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
Land area: The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
Which utility serves it: The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the ForgeLight Ventures Conway Data Center in Conway?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the ForgeLight Ventures Conway Data Center?

No lawsuit over ForgeLight Ventures Conway Data Center appears in the record we track as of September 15, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.

How much water does ForgeLight Ventures Conway Data Center use?

No water withdrawal figure for ForgeLight Ventures Conway Data Center is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates ForgeLight Ventures Conway Data Center, and how big is it?

ForgeLight Ventures, LLC is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "ForgeLight Ventures Conway Data Center," updated September 15, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/forgelight-ventures-conway-ar.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.0 (September 21, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/forgelight-ventures-conway-ar, retrieved October 1, 2026.

Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.

Sources for this record

As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.

1.Conway residents comment on possible data center · UA Little Rock Public Radio · retrieved September 15, 2026
2.Conway Data Center Public Information · Conway Data Center (community group) · retrieved September 15, 2026
3.OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocode: Conway Municipal Airport at Cantrell Field, Lollie Road, Conway, Faulkner County, Arkansas · OpenStreetMap · retrieved September 15, 2026

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