- Google will invest $ 9 billion in Oklahoma in the next two years
- The investments focus on the expansion of an existing data center and the construction of another
- Another scheme of $ 1 billion will make Oklahoma students get access to AI training
Google has announced plans to invest $ 9 billion to expand its cloud infrastructure and IA in Oklahoma in the next two years.
As part of the multimillion -dollar investment, the company has pledged to build a new campus of the data center in Stillwater and expand its existing Pryor Data Center, which opened in 2011 and has received an estimate of $ 4.4 billion to date.
The citizens of Oklahoma will also benefit from a separate financing pot that Google plans to share in several US states to boost AI skills.
Google is spending billions in Oklahoma ai
“As part of a broader commitment of $ 1 billion with US education and competitiveness, Oklahoma University and Oklahoma State University are part of the first Google AI cohort for the education accelerator,” the company wrote.
The scheme will cause participants to access Google career certificates and other AI training courses.
The recognition of the data center campus comes with broader environmental and sustainability impacts, Google will also be associated with the electrical training alliance to boost the state workforce pipeline in 135% in advance of a greater demand in the future.
Google’s president and investment director, Ruth Porrat, announced the investment during a visit to the Pryor campus on August 13, 2025, and said: “Google is helping to boost a new era of American innovation with our investments in Oklahoma.”
“For almost two decades, Google has proudly called Oklahoma Home, starting with our data center in Mayes County, our second largest in the world,” added Porat.
Since he built his first campus in the state, Google claims to have invested more than $ 5.7 billion in the state, generating $ 2.2 billion of economic activity for citizens and state companies only in 2024.
The company also coincided with 87% of its energy consumption with carbon free energy in 2022-2023 of more than 680MW of clean energy contracts in the state, with other achievements such as water replacement and advanced effectiveness of the use of energy in its impact study.
