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Google has been identified as the operator of a large data center campus under construction in unincorporated Tulsa County, Oklahoma, ending months of public uncertainty around the project known as Project Clydesdale.
The Tulsa Regional Chamber announced Aug. 19 that Google will operate the facility west of Owasso. Before that announcement, the operator had not been publicly named.
Developer Beale Infrastructure broke ground on the site on Oct. 30, 2025, when it was still being referred to as Project Clydesdale. Beale’s original announcement described a planned $1 billion investment, up to 100 permanent technical jobs and thousands of local construction jobs during the five-year build-out of the initial phase.
The chamber said the campus will become part of Google’s global network of data centers that supports services including Google Search, online banking, hospitals and emergency systems.
The site will cover 506 acres.
Public Service Company of Oklahoma will supply power to the Tulsa County campus. According to the chamber announcement, the project includes a new on-site substation funded by Beale, along with upgrades meant to improve PSO’s transmission and distribution reliability across the region.
The project also includes water system work. Google and Beale are funding and installing 1.5 miles of new water lines and upgrades for Washington County Rural Water District No. 3, according to the Tulsa Regional Chamber.
The development is also expected to support roadway improvements and other public infrastructure upgrades. Rich Brierre, executive director of the Indian Nations Council of Governments, said the project will improve energy reliability, water systems and roads in the area.
According to the Tulsa Regional Chamber and Google’s Oklahoma economic impact report, Google has invested more than $15 billion in Oklahoma since establishing its first data center presence in the state. The company has operated in Oklahoma for nearly two decades, and its Mayes County campus near Pryor was described as an early anchor for its data center network.
In 2025, Google said its investments and technologies helped provide $2.6 billion in economic activity for tens of thousands of Oklahoma businesses, publishers, nonprofits, creators, and developers.
The Tulsa County project follows other Google expansion in the region. In 2025, Google also announced a separate $9 billion Oklahoma investment covering cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure, including a new data center campus in Stillwater, an expansion of its existing Pryor facility and expanded education and workforce development programs.
The initial Tulsa-area build-out is expected to affect demand for electricians, plumbers, HVAC technicians and ironworkers, according to Beale’s 2025 announcement. The project also creates potential work in civil construction, utility upgrades, substations, transmission and distribution systems, water lines, roads and data center fit-out.
The announcement arrives amid continued growth in U.S. data center construction. ConstructConnect’s August 2026 Data Center Report found that U.S. Data Center spending totaled $22.3 billion in June, the second-highest monthly total on record, while year-to-date spending through June reached $81.5 billion.
In that report, ConstructConnect economists Michael Guckes and Devin Bell wrote that year-to-date spending through June of $81.5 billion "surpassed 2025's full-year total of $72.5 billion and is more than three times the 2024 full-year total."
The report also said that power access is increasingly shaping where data centers can be built, while activity is moving toward areas with available power and water resources and proximity to natural gas pipeline infrastructure.
Google said its Oklahoma data center investments build on more than 15 agreements signed since 2011 to support the development of more than 2.5 gigawatts of new power generation and storage projects.
To help address labor needs tied to new energy infrastructure, Google is supporting a program with the electrical training ALLIANCE that is expected to train existing electrical workers and add more than 160 apprentices in Oklahoma by 2030.
Google and Beale said they plan to expand partnerships involving education, workforce development, small businesses and digital access.
The project’s infrastructure commitments come as communities across the country continue to debate the local costs and benefits of data center growth. The original report noted recent opposition tied to power demand, water use, pollution, noise, tax incentives and long-term infrastructure impacts. It also noted that in early August, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed regulators to audit all data center projects moving through the grid connection process, effectively halting new data center projects advancing until that review is complete.
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