Google Stillwater Data Center Campus
Perkins Road & Richmond Road · Stillwater, Payne County, OK
Source: Primary source
Google Stillwater Data Center Campus is a under construction data center in Payne County, OK, operated by Google LLC and ultimately owned by Alphabet Inc..
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 17, 2026
Overview
source: linkGoogle's flagship Oklahoma AI and cloud campus, on roughly 400 acres at Perkins Road (US-177) and Richmond Road in Stillwater — a multi-phase, multi-decade buildout planned at up to about $3 billion, with up to six buildings of roughly 300,000 sq ft each. It anchors the $9 billion Oklahoma investment Google announced in August 2025 (alongside the Pryor expansion and new Muskogee County facilities). The Stillwater Planning Commission approved the 202-acre final plat 4-0 on November 4, 2025, and building permits for the first lots were issued; phase one is expected to be operational by 2027. Under the incentive deal Google pays no initial property tax and instead makes payments in lieu of taxes (PILOT) — phase one brings about $900,000 split among Stillwater public schools, Meridian Technology Center, Payne County, and the county health department. Because Stillwater Electric is a public-power provider, OG&E needed voter approval to serve the campus: a franchise vote passed November 5, 2024, with the city set to receive roughly $2.25 million per data center per year once fully operational. At the time of that vote the customer was disclosed only as a "Fortune 100 company," not named as Google.
Operator chain
- Ultimate parentAlphabet Inc.
- Files asGoogle LLC
- This facilityGoogle Stillwater Data Center Campus
The grid behind this site, right now
source: SPP · gridstatus- Coal34.8%
- Natural Gas32.1%
- Wind25.3%
- Nuclear5.1%
- Hydro2.7%
Real-time generation mix for the SPP grid this site draws from, as of Aug 17, 2026, 9:30 AM. ISO-wide, not this facility's own metering. Source: gridstatus.
Grid & water — why here
source: HIFLD · EPAThe closest existing grid infrastructure and the municipal water system this location sits in — the same constraints the buildout model screens on (it won't site a campus more than ~2 km from a substation or ~5 km from municipal water). Distances are straight-line to public HIFLD/EPA features, not a metered connection.
In the news
source: GDELT- Oklahoma city council members welcomed a Google data center. Now they face a recall. - NBC NewsNBC News· Mar 25, 2026
- ‘Nobody Owns Us’: How Plans for a Google Data Center Divided an Oklahoma Town - The New York TimesThe New York Times· Mar 17, 2026
- Google gets greenlight for data center in Tulsa, Oklahoma - Data Center DynamicsData Center Dynamics· Feb 5, 2026
Data-center discussions in Payne County
source: LocalView (CC0)Local-government meetings in this county that discussed data centers, each cued to the moment. From the public LocalView corpus of government meetings on YouTube — a county-level signal, not necessarily about this specific site.
Tax breaks & subsidies
source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.
Water use
No public record of this facility's water use. We check state withdrawal reporting for self-supplied sites; municipally supplied sites only become visible through a public-records request to the local water utility — a per-facility request tool is coming. If you have a utility document for this site, send it to us.
EPA permits & violations
source: EPA ECHONo reported violations as of last sync.
Nearest school
source: HIFLD / NCESThe nearest public school, Richmond Es in Stillwater, is 0.5 mi from this site (344 students).
Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).
Hearings timeline
No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.