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Benton County, Arkansas

Benton County, Arkansas has 3 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 2 operating plants totaling 561 MW and 1 planned project totaling 80 MW. No data center record lists the county. Coal leads with 558 MW across 1 project. No planned project is past its listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: Southwest Power Pool (SPP)Refreshed monthly
3
power projects, planned and operating
80MW
planned generation, 1 project
561MW
operating generation, 2 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Benton County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 2 of its 3 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Washington no data centers Benton no data centers Carroll no data centers Madison
no data center MWunder 100 MW100 to 1,000 MW1,000 to 5,000 MW5,000 to 15,000 MW15,000 MW or more no page yet

Data center records planned, under construction and operating, data as of October 8, 2026.Hover a county for its numbers

Headline finding
14%

of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 80 MW planned across 1 project against 561 MW operating.

Operating generation561 MW
Planned generation80 MW

Technology mix

3 projects, 641 MW planned and operating

Coal558 MW1 project, 87%
Solar83 MW2 projects, 13%
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Power generation in the county

2 plants operate inside Benton County, 561 MW of coal and solar. The queue adds 80 MW across 1 project.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Benton County

OperatingPlanned
CoalOperating 558 MW 1 project
SolarOperating 3 MW 1 project
SolarPlanned 80 MW 1 project
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
CoalOperating1558
SolarOperating13
SolarPlanned180
Operating: 561 MW. Planned: 80 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 641 MW.
Source. FieldProspects database: ISO/RTO interconnection queues, EIA-860M and public data center filings, data as of October 8, 2026.
Figure 2

Planned generation by listed in-service year

MW. Years before 2026 are past due.

Past dueDue 2026 or later
020406080 80 2027
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YearPlanned projectsMW
2027180
No planned project is past its listed year

Benton County against its neighbors

None of the 2 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Washington County has the most operating generation among them, 453.9 MW.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Benton County this page 0
0
561
80 0x
Washington County 0
0
454
0 0x
Carroll County 0
0
114
363 0x

Data center MW counts records planned, under construction and operating. Generation is inside the county only. Neighbors without a page have fewer than three projects on record.

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Every record in Benton County

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County: Benton County, ARStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 3 records
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