Hyperscale Data Centers Pressure OKC Planning System
The data center hype is being felt at City Hall in Oklahoma City where city planners prepare in the coming week to decide if zoning changes are necessary to handle concerns and questions about their growth.
The Planning Commission will meet Thursday, November 13 to hear the city’s first major data center request, one for a hyperscale center that would be located in Yukon and Oklahoma City. The proposed $1 billion project would involve a 1.5 gigawatt center and the city of Yukon recently sold city-owned land to a prospective developer. But the name of the actual data-center operator has yet to be revealed.
The project already drew opposition and concerns from Yukon area residents who questioned the heavy water use and power supply…