State lawmakers grill Entergy, praise Google in Joint Committee on Energy meeting

On Tuesday afternoon, the Arkansas Joint Committee on Energy met up at the Capitol for a lengthy conversation on, what else, data centers. While Pulaski County and the city of Little Rock have been left to duke it out on whether and how to regulate the incoming behemoths, the State Legislature — with the General Assembly on recess since Google and AVAIO Digital‘s official announcements in January — has been waiting in the wings. But it appears a recent scandal involving leaked details...