Data center restrictions tracker · Oklahoma

City of Edmond, Oklahoma: data center moratorium (2026)

Data snapshot 2026-08-15 · part of Pricing the Fear of Data Centers

City of Edmond, in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, adopted a data-center moratorium on June 8, 2026. Its status in this snapshot is enacted.

The record reads: "On June 8, 2026 the Edmond (OK) City Council voted 5-0 to enact an immediate moratorium on accepting new data center applications through Dec 31, 2026, giving the city ~5 months to study water, electricity, zoning, and cost-recovery… (datacentertracker.org)."

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ActionClassStatusDateMW thresholdScopeSource
MoratoriumrestrictionenactedJune 8, 2026not county-widedatacentertracker.org

Jurisdiction type: municipality. County: Oklahoma County. Dataset: datacentertracker. Snapshot August 15, 2026; documented actions, not a census.

Elsewhere in Oklahoma County

Oklahoma context

Oklahoma has 11 documented local actions across 11 jurisdictions in this snapshot. At the state level, the state has a ratepayer-protection law (enacted).

A town that says no to a data center gives up local tax revenue, not jobs: one large campus pays $2M to $90M a year depending on the tax regime, against roughly 50 permanent jobs. The parent piece prices it and lists the conditions that beat a ban.

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