# Pulaski County Clerk: Data center moratorium did not pass, votes miscounted (KLRT-Fox16) > *Text-extract archive. fox16.com returns HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) on direct download; the article text below was recovered 2026-06-10 via mcp fetch of the AMP rendition (`.../amp/`). No original HTML file is preserved.* ## Source metadata - **Publisher:** KLRT Fox16 (fox16.com), Little Rock — Nexstar Media Group - **URL:** https://www.fox16.com/news/politics/pulaski-county-clerk-data-center-moratorium-did-not-pass/ - **Byline:** Alex Kienlen - **Published:** 2026-05-28 (shared Nexstar newsroom copy with the KARK rendition, which records 2:28 PM CDT, updated 2:40 PM CDT) - **Archived:** 2026-06-10 (text recovery via AMP rendition; direct download blocked by Cloudflare 403) **Wayback failure**: Save Page Now did not return a snapshot on 2026-06-10. Retry pending. ## Extract PULASKI COUNTY, Ark. – Pulaski County Clerk Terri Hollingsworth said on Thursday that due to a miscalculation, the ordinance to place a moratorium on data centers in the county did not pass at the county's May 26 Quorum Court meeting. The ordinance 26-I-37 titled "Imposing a temporary moratorium on the acceptance, processing, and approval of applications for the development, construction, or siting of data centers within the unincorporated areas of Pulaski County" was recorded as passing at the time. It would have taken effect immediately and lasted for 12 months. Because the ordinance was drawn as an emergency ordinance, it needed at least 10 "yes" votes to pass, which was not the case at the Tuesday meeting, Hollingsworth stated. The vote came Tuesday night, when court justices heard from community activists, utility leaders, economic developers and residents on both sides of the issue. They expressed concerns over utility rates, environmental impacts, transparency and long-term infrastructure demands dominated much of the discussion. ## Notes - **Tier 3** — established local broadcast news outlet. - This is KLRT-Fox16's 2026-05-28 coverage of the episode behind [[2026-05 County Judge Executive Order Pauses Data-Center Planning Applications]]: the determination that emergency Ordinance 26-I-37 failed (10-vote threshold not met), which immediately preceded County Judge Barry Hyde's 30-day pause on planning-application intake. **The recovered text documents the failed-vote determination but does not itself recite the executive order**; the order's terms are carried by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette account archived at `web archive/2026-06-03/arkansasonline.com/review-of-pulaski-county-quorum-court-vote-finds-2026-05-28.md`. No separate Fox16 story dedicated to the executive order was located in web search on 2026-06-10. - The Fox16 and KARK renditions carry identical body text (shared Nexstar newsroom copy, same byline); both are archived for completeness against the event page's source line naming both outlets. - Cited by: [[2026-05 County Judge Executive Order Pauses Data-Center Planning Applications]].