Graded Moderate and tightening. 15 laws, orders, rulings and local actions, each with its source, reviewed 23 October 2026.
HB 2992 (effective July 1, 2026) requires 60-day notice to the Corporation Commission for 75 MW loads; own power is allowed under SB 480, not required.
HB 2992 (effective July 1, 2026) imposes credit requirements, 10-year contracts and stranded cost repayment for 75 MW loads; tariffs are still pending.
Oklahoma City (April 21, 2026), Tulsa, Edmond, Norman and Shawnee pause new projects, but the Pryor, Stillwater and Muskogee markets stay open.
No data center incentive item and no incentive action appears in the file, so this scores 3: nothing to lose, nothing to gain.
SB 259, signed in 2026 with a ceremony in August, bars data centers from open-air evaporative cooling, a water limit with teeth.
Scored on rules in force, 1 to 5. 5 is the most regulated. Pending rules set the arrow.
Oklahoma allows data centers to build their own power under a 2025 behind-the-meter law, and Google is expanding at Pryor, Stillwater and Muskogee. In 2026 the Legislature passed HB 2992, which requires separate terms, 10-year contracts and cost repayment for new loads of 75 MW or more, and a groundwater bill that restricts data center cooling. Both big utilities have large-load tariffs before the Corporation Commission. At the local level Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Shawnee, Pawhuska and others have paused new projects, a Coweta project was withdrawn, and a bill for a statewide moratorium failed.
The Corporation Commission's final order on PSO's rate case and its 75 MW large load class, recommended by an administrative law judge in August 2026, was expected around mid-October 2026 and had not been confirmed as of 23 October; OG&E's tariff, filed 17 June 2026, was expected to take about six months to review. The Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Edmond moratoria expire on 31 December 2026, so those councils must decide on permanent zoning rules or extensions, while Shawnee's runs to 31 December 2027. The Supreme Court appeal over PSO's $1.3 billion generation pre-approval is still open, and the author of HB 2992 is running for a Corporation Commission seat.
No statewide moratorium, but 5 local pauses are in force as of 23 October 2026, in Edmond, Norman, Oklahoma City, Shawnee, Tulsa. Proposals and expired pauses are not counted.
Tightening. Oklahoma is graded Moderate, which means incentives alongside new costs, limits or local pushback. New 75 MW ratepayer law, and city moratoria are spreading. The outlook above says what is pending.
Oklahoma sits in SPP. The grid operator decides how a new large load is studied, what it must bring or pay, and whether it can be curtailed first; the state decides siting, permits, tariffs and incentives.
No. Oklahoma's data center incentives were not pulled back in 2025 or 2026 as of 23 October 2026.
On Genloop's five-line rubric (1 least regulated, 5 most) Oklahoma scores grid connection 2, power rates 3, siting and land use 3, tax treatment 3, permits and water 4, a mean of 3.0. The most regulated line is permits and water: SB 259, signed in 2026 with a ceremony in August, bars data centers from open-air evaporative cooling, a water limit with teeth.
15 items: each is a law, order, tariff, ruling, utility action or local decision that changes what a data center must do, pay or disclose, or where it may be built. Failed and pending measures are marked. Each links to its source.
City commissioners voted 7-0 in August 2026 to stop taking new data center applications until 31 December 2027, extending a 90-day pause proposed by staff. Existing and under-construction projects are not affected.
Source: hoodline.comThe Cherokee Nation, the largest tribe in the United States, barred hyperscale data centers on its lands in August 2026, citing water, energy, noise and cultural resources. Other projects require early consultation with the tribe.
Source: tomshardware.comIn August 2026 an administrative law judge recommended that the Corporation Commission approve a new rate class for customers adding more than 75 MW, as part of PSO's rate case. A commissioner estimated a final ruling in mid-October 2026.
Source: tulsaflyer.orgNorman's City Council voted unanimously on 23 June 2026 to pause approval of data center permits within city limits while staff, the council and the planning commission study impacts and hold hearings on zoning changes. The end date was not stated in the source.
Source: kgou.orgThe City Council enacted the moratorium on 8 June 2026. It bars data center development inside city limits while the city writes a formal policy, and expires on 31 December 2026 unless the council extends it.
Source: nondoc.comFiled 17 June 2026: customers of 75 MW or more would form a separate class, pay for contracted usage whether or not they use it, pay for their own grid connection, and pay monthly fees (an estimated $25 million to $30 million a year) into a fund for credits to other customers, with the Commission able to order credits in rate reviews. Review was expected to take about six months. OG&E's separate contract with Google (three data centers in Muskogee and Stillwater), finalized in late April 2026, has similar conditions but no monthly fee.
Source: kgou.orgSigned 11 May 2026, effective 1 July 2026. New data centers, crypto mines and AI facilities adding 75 MW or more must be served under separate terms with credit requirements, a minimum 10-year contract and repayment of costs left stranded if they leave; developers must notify the Corporation Commission, county commissioners and neighboring landowners within 60 days of a land deal. Facilities that build their own behind-the-meter generation are excluded.
Source: kgou.orgA groundwater metering bill amended in April 2026 to bar data centers from using open-air evaporative cooling systems. It passed in May 2026 and was signed, with a signing ceremony in early August 2026.
Source: hoodline.comOn 22 May 2026 a state representative appealed to the Oklahoma Supreme Court the Corporation Commission order pre-approving about $1.3 billion of new PSO generation and storage, which he says is meant for large loads including data centers. AARP and industrial customers joined on 29 May, challenging the 2025 law (SB 998) that mandates recovery of construction costs while plants are being built.
Source: okhouse.govAdopted unanimously on 21 April 2026 and running to 31 December 2026. On 19 May the council voted 7-2 to exempt two more named projects and facilities under 75 MW.
Source: kgou.orgBeale Infrastructure withdrew its 270-acre Project Atlas application in Coweta on 30 March 2026 after residents objected to a non-disclosure agreement signed by city officials. Pawhuska voted on 14 April 2026 to halt data center reviews to the end of December, and McAlester's council stopped a proposed sale of 6 million gallons of raw water for data center cooling in February 2026.
Source: infrathesis.substack.comThe city council approved a pause of about 270 days in late March 2026, ending no later than 31 December 2026, to study noise, water and energy effects and possible zoning changes. Both phases of Project Anthem in east Tulsa are exempt.
Source: kjrh.comOn 24 February 2026 the council voted 5-3 to allow data centers with peak demand of 2 MW or less by right in the I-1 restricted manufacturing and warehouse district and to make data centers and digital asset mining above 2 MW a use permitted on review in the I-4 heavy industrial district.
Source: southwestledger.newsWould have barred construction of data centers of 100 MW or more until 1 November 2029 and ordered a Corporation Commission impact study. It was assigned to two committees in February 2026 and did not advance.
Source: foley.comSigned in May 2025 and effective 1 July 2025. Lets businesses such as data centers and large manufacturers develop and manage their own power generation and electric facilities; it passed both chambers unanimously.
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