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Google breaks ground in Tulsa

Edition of August 21, 2026 at 12:02 AM UTCFull article
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Google has started construction on a 506-acre data-center campus in Tulsa County, another sign that AI and cloud growth are translating into vast physical footprints across the United States. The project adds to Google’s domestic infrastructure base at a time when model training, inference and enterprise cloud workloads are driving demand for power, land, fiber and cooling capacity. A 506-acre site is large enough to support phased expansion rather than a single facility, which matters because hyperscalers increasingly build campuses designed for years of GPU and server refreshes. For local governments, these projects bring tax revenue and jobs, but also sharper scrutiny of electricity and water use.

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