How the old guard and the no-shows sold us out on data centers

As with everything related to AI and our rapidly ascending tech overlords, there’s an uneasy sheen over the Little Rock City Board of Directors’ 4-4 decision Tuesday night to reject a proposed 18-month pause on hyperscale data center construction so that potential impacts could be studied.
The ordinance needed six votes to pass. We’ll examine the absences of two of the directors on the day of this defining vote (Antwan Phillips and Ken Richardson) as well as the justification