# AVAIO Digital Partners AVAIO Digital Partners is the developer of "Project Leo," the hyperscale data center on 145th Street in unincorporated Pulaski County — the largest of the five Arkansas data-center sites under investigation. It is headquartered at 107 Elm Street, Suite 501, Stamford, Connecticut, and is the developer of record on every Pulaski County filing in the [[county-pulaski/project-leo-2026-05-22/_overview|Project Leo planning file]]. ## Corporate structure The AVAIO name appears in three related forms in the corpus: - **AVAIO Digital Partners** — the developer of record named on the Pulaski County site plan application and drawings. - **AVAIO Capital LLC** — the affiliated capital entity; AVAIO principals [[Tom Nesel]] and Joe Hubbard correspond from `@avaiocapital.com` addresses, and the construction SWPPP is "Prepared for: ADP Little Rock Data Hub, LLC / AVAIO Capital LLC." - **[[ADP Little Rock Data Hub, LLC]]** — a project-specific entity ("ADP" for AVAIO Digital Partners) named as the operator on the project's NPDES construction-stormwater permit, sharing AVAIO's Stamford address. The precise legal relationships among these entities are not established by the corpus. ## People - [[Tom Nesel]] — principal, AVAIO Capital; "Owner's Construction Manager" for Project Leo. - Joe Hubbard — appears alongside Nesel on the AVAIO side (`@avaiocapital.com`). ## Roles in this corpus - **Developer of Project Leo.** AVAIO Digital Partners filed the Project Leo site plan with [[Pulaski County Government]] beginning September 2024 and carried it through the county's [[2024-12 Pulaski County Conditionally Approves the Project Leo Site Plan|conditional approval]] and the [[Project Leo Engineering and Environmental Permits|state and federal environmental permitting]]. Its civil engineer of record is [[Kimley-Horn]]; its environmental consultant is [[Stantec]]. - **Named in the Entergy rate record.** Entergy Arkansas's CEO testimony in the base rate case names "the Avaio data center site in Pulaski County" as one of two data centers said to "provide more than $1.7 billion in savings for EAL customers" — see [[Entergy CEO Direct Testimony]]. - **AVAIO transmission projects in the test-year CWIP.** [[26-001-U Doc 47 Volume 1 Application and Schedules A-B|Schedule B-8 (CWIP) of Doc. 47]] in Docket 26-001-U lists two transmission-plant projects in Entergy's test-year Construction Work in Progress named for AVAIO: **"Avaio Digital Ctr-Instl 115kV" ($283, last activity Apr-25)** and **"Avaio Digital Partner LR Data" ($-309, last activity Apr-25)**. These are the first public-record line items showing that Entergy is recovering the cost of building 115 kV transmission specifically to serve AVAIO Project Leo through the standard rate base — not through a contract-customer-specific charge. ## Notes Publicly, AVAIO Digital and the Arkansas Economic Development Commission have framed Project Leo as a ~$6 billion first phase, up to ~$21 billion at full buildout, on a ~760-acre campus, with power demand of up to 1 GW. The Pulaski County file reviewed a **296.354-acre tract** — the site plan footprint — and documents an engineered build of **one 60 MW and four 40 MW data-center buildings**; see [[county-pulaski/project-leo-2026-05-22/_overview|the Project Leo planning file]]. This page anchors the former index seed "AVAIO Digital."