ARE-ON Hope is a data center operated by Arkansas Research and Education Optical Network (AREON) in Hope, AR, US. The facility is currently operational. It sits in the Little Rock data-center market on the MISO grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 20.1-month time-to-power. Operators should weigh interconnection risk here — the market screens constrained on grid headroom and time-to-power.
Data Center Power Index verdict for Little Rock — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Little Rock — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Little Rock's data center market remains fragmented and underdeveloped, with only 150 MW across six tracked facilities and no recent M&A activity to signal institutional confidence. The operator base is dispersed among five players—AVAIO Digital, Mainstream Technologies two entities, and TierPoint two entities—with no dominant incumbent. This atomization mirrors earlier-stage peer markets like Fayetteville, where lack of consolidation has deterred capital deployment and prevented the formation of competitive scale. The DCPI verdict of 47/100 on excess-power and 39/100 on constraint exposure reflects a market caught between two unfavorable poles. The excess-power score signals structural oversupply or underutilized capacity—a red flag for unit economics. More critically, the constraint score of 39/100 indicates substantial grid, cooling, or real-estate limitations that will force future…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
Networks recorded as present at or immediately around ARE-ON Hope in public peering records. Treat this as a map of who is there, not as a list of contracted cross-connects — availability, diversity and pricing are the operator’s to confirm.
Source: PeeringDB carrier-to-facility records, matched to this site by location. A network listed here may sit in a neighbouring hall or an adjacent building at the same address, so presence is reported for the location rather than for a single suite.
DC Hub tracks 11 operating generating units totalling 970 MW within about 50 km of Hope, US. Generation mix shapes both carbon profile and interconnection options for a site at this location.
Source: Global Energy Monitor unit inventory, operating units only. Counts are units, not plants.
Comparable facilities in Hope tracked by DC Hub — compare power, operators, and grid context across the market.
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