This rural Oklahoma town doesn’t want a data center. It may not be able to stop the project
With the project outside city limits and little county oversight of unincorporated land, officials are considering measures to gain local control.
All the details on data center secrecy deals Oklahoma communities have signed
We gathered cities’ confidentiality agreements with data center developers. Some require local leaders to keep secret even the fact that a nondisclosure agreement exists.
How data center developers won secrecy pledges from Oklahoma officials
Some agreements allow the companies to sue cities to enforce the terms of the deals, sometimes in other states.
As data centers boom in Oklahoma, so does water demand
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.
Oklahoma’s data center boom is about to hit the grid — and your power bill
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.