Tulsa County Commissioners delay a vote on whether to approve a data center in North Tulsa.
More than a dozen people spoke at the county commissioners’ meeting Monday to voice their opinions on the data center.
Speakers reaction
Some speakers were surprised that commissioners agreed to push the vote to next week, and others were disappointed that commissioners are postponing.
A plan in waiting
The plan is to build a data center with four buildings in Tulsa on 500 acres of land, a project that requires a lot of planning before construction starts.
Eric Lemley, Iron Workers Local 584, said, “All construction sites and jobs have a schedule that they have to maintain, and there’s different things that need to be ordered at different times. And I mean, it’s getting down to crunch time they have to do this.”…