We gathered cities’ confidentiality agreements with data center developers. Some require local leaders to keep secret even the fact that a nondisclosure agreement exists.
Some agreements allow the companies to sue cities to enforce the terms of the deals, sometimes in other states.
Federal rules do not require Oklahoma’s U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin to shut down his leadership PAC if he is confirmed to lead the Department of Homeland Security. The committee has spent money on flights on private jets, limousine rentals and luxury hotels.
From Pryor to Stillwater and Muskogee, local officials say supplies are sufficient, even as Google alone used more than 1.1 billion gallons in a single year.
The judgment also permanently limits the application of bird waste to fields in the region.
A wave of big data centers is triggering a scramble for new electricity generation. OG&E and PSO are pushing to charge ratepayers more as they race to keep up.
From floating the Illinois River to tracking political dark money, The Frontier’s reporting this year shows why independent journalism matters — and why reader support keeps it alive.
The settlement comes after William Henry Jamerson spent more than two decades in prison for a rape conviction that was overturned last year.
