Oklahoma is quietly
becoming AI country.
Google committed $9 billion. Meta broke ground on a billion-dollar AI hall in Tulsa. Three hundred megawatts are under construction in Oklahoma City and Muskogee. Here is every announced project in one sourced table — including the smallest one, which is ours.
Google's Oklahoma commitment — new Stillwater campus + Pryor expansion (Aug 2025)
Meta's AI-optimized Tulsa data center — broke ground April 2026
Under construction now: CloudBurst OKC (~200 MW) + Core Scientific Muskogee (~100 MW)
The smallest tracked project — SmartTec's battery-backed B200 site in Mead, Q4 2026
| Operator | Location | Investment | Scale | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stillwater (new campus) + Pryor (expansion) | $9,000M | New Stillwater campus; 8 buildings already operating in Pryor | AnnouncedAug 2025 | ||
| Meta | Tulsa (Fair Oaks) | $1,000M+ | AI-optimized DC — Meta's 28th in the US; ~1,000 construction jobs, ~100 operational | Under constructionBroke ground Apr 2026 | Meta |
| CloudBurst | Oklahoma City | — | ~200 MW across three data centers | Under construction2026 | NewsOn6 |
| Core Scientific | Muskogee | — | ~100 MW | Under constructionScheduled 2026 | NewsOn6 |
| Beale Infrastructure | Claremore + Owasso | — | Multi-building campuses (~200,000 sqft per phase in Owasso) | Approved2026 | NewsOn6 |
| Northern Data | Pryor — MidAmerica Industrial Park | — | North American operational headquarters | AnnouncedMar 2022 | OK Commerce |
| Cerebras Systems | Oklahoma City | — | ~10 MW wafer-scale AI compute | Operating— | NewsOn6 |
| [✓]SmartTec (us) | Mead — Bryan County, US-70 | $4.6M | 114 kW · 8× HGX B200 (64 GPUs) behind z1power LFP batteries | Pre-launch buildPower-on target Q4 2026 | The site |
Investment figures only where publicly stated by the operator or the State of Oklahoma; “—” means undisclosed, not zero. Roughly twenty additional commercial colocation facilities operate across Oklahoma City and Tulsa (TierPoint, RACK59, ValorC3, TulsaConnect and others) and several early-stage proposals in Pawhuska, Sand Springs and Pittsburg/Atoka counties are not yet firm enough to list. Updated as announcements land; last reviewed July 25, 2026.
The same physics,
at every scale.
The boom has one driver: power economics. Oklahoma commercial electricity runs around $0.08/kWh against $0.12–0.25 in the markets data centers are fleeing, land is measured in affordable acres rather than premium square feet, and Southwest Power Pool interconnection moves faster than the coastal queues where roughly 1,500 GW of projects sit waiting.
Those economics do not care how big you are. They pulled $9 billion from Google to Pryor and Stillwater, a billion from Meta to Tulsa — and they are why our own 114 kW Phase 1A sits on 30 owned acres in Mead with an on-site 3 MVA transformer, z1power batteries behind the meter, and no interconnection queue at all. Smallest row on the table, same thesis as the biggest.
As of July 2026 the announced and active builders include Google (a $9 billion commitment covering a new Stillwater campus and expansion of its eight-building Pryor site), Meta (a $1 billion+ AI-optimized data center in Tulsa that broke ground in April 2026), CloudBurst (~200 MW across three Oklahoma City data centers), Core Scientific (~100 MW in Muskogee), Beale Infrastructure (approved campuses in Claremore and Owasso), and Northern Data (North American operational headquarters at MidAmerica Industrial Park in Pryor). Roughly twenty smaller commercial facilities already operate across Oklahoma City and Tulsa, and SmartTec — the smallest project on this tracker — is building a 114 kW battery-backed GPU site in Mead, Bryan County, targeting power-on in Q4 2026.
Google announced an additional $9 billion for Oklahoma over two years on August 13, 2025 — funding a new data center campus in Stillwater and expansion of its existing Pryor campus at MidAmerica Industrial Park, where Google already operates eight buildings. The announcement also funds workforce programs, including no-cost Google Career Certificates at OU and OSU and an electrical-training program intended to grow Oklahoma's electrical workforce by 135%.
Four structural reasons: power that is cheap by national standards (commercial rates around $0.08/kWh in much of the state), abundant land with existing industrial infrastructure at sites like MidAmerica Industrial Park, comparatively fast interconnection through the Southwest Power Pool relative to coastal queues, and an aggressive state economic-development posture. The same economics that attracted Google's billions to Pryor scale all the way down — they are why SmartTec's battery-backed site sits on 30 owned acres in Mead with a 3 MVA transformer and no interconnection queue.
Almost certainly SmartTec's Phase 1A in Mead, Bryan County — about 114 kW of IT load from eight HGX B200 servers (64 GPUs) behind z1power LFP battery storage, on 30 owned acres with an on-site 3 MVA transformer, targeting power-on in Q4 2026. It is roughly one ten-thousandth the scale of Google's Oklahoma commitment, which is exactly the point of listing it on the same table: Oklahoma's data-center economics work at every scale, and SmartTec publishes its real numbers — 64 GPUs, $4.6M all-in — rather than borrowing the boom's.
- Google — $9 billion Oklahoma announcement (Aug 13, 2025)
- Meta — Breaking ground on the Tulsa AI-optimized data center (Apr 21, 2026)
- NewsOn6 — Where data centers are being built across Oklahoma (2026)
- Oklahoma Department of Commerce — Northern Data at MidAmerica Industrial Park
- Oklahoma Department of Commerce — Meta breaks ground in Tulsa
This page is market analysis, not investment advice and not an offer or solicitation of securities. Figures are as published by the named operators and outlets on the dates shown; announced investments are commitments, not completed spending. SmartTec's own figures describe a pre-launch build and are design targets until power-on.