A 468-acre rezoning for a Google-backed data center in Franklin Township won approval despite resident pushback. The proposal now heads to the full council.

The state’s Oklahoma Innovation Expansion Program this year distributed grants of up to $150,000, with a total of over $15 million to companies in 61 communities across the state.

Using less electricity as a response to high demand had been a nonstarter for big tech companies. That might be changing.

With data centers buying up electricity, residential customers are digging deep to make payments. “The challenge,” said a source, “is when the demand for the product increases really fast, the

Google quickly raised its stake in the company, while Google-backed Fluidstack said it will expand a data center campus.