What do we know about the planned Okmulgee data center?
A Fluidstack data center project is planned for Okmulgee, Oklahoma, on a 200-acre site. Residents at a public meeting raised concerns about the project's impact on electricity, water, noise, traffic, property values, and wetlands. Fluidstack addressed these questions via a landing page.
Ryan Welton, founder of Oklahoma Memo, discusses the planned data center project in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, by AI cloud provider Fluidstack. He notes that Fluidstack representatives met with residents on Monday, July 20th, to address concerns about the 200-acre site planned for construction this fall, west of Madison Avenue on land currently owned by Tulsa-based Three Rivers Manufacturing.
Kate Franco, a spokesperson for Fluidstack, stated that Okmulgee offers the right combination of land, power, and workforce. Concerns raised by residents and addressed on a project-specific landing page included electricity costs, impact on local water resources, noise production, construction traffic, impact on local revenue, oversight by state and local entities, plans for backup generators, effects on property values, and impact on wetlands. Welton notes that the company's answers appeared "very satisfying to a concerned public."