IREN Project Emerald
Kiowa, Kiowa County, OK
IREN Project Emerald is a planned data center in Kiowa, OK. Reported capacity is 1,200 MW. Proposed 2,000-acre, roughly 1.2GW AI data center campus south of Kiowa, Pittsburg County, described in local coverage as a roughly $50 billion project, using power from PSO. A county Tax Incentive District review committee advanced an economic development plan in April 2026, but commissioners later tabled the incentive after public pushback; construction is planned to begin in 2027 in two phases.
- 1,200 MWPlanned capacity
Project status
- Announced
- Permitting
- Under constructionNot yet
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Oklahoma state legislation
- SB5982 - Data Center Clean Energy and Reporting ActSets clean energy and reporting requirements for data centers.Download
- HB784 - Water/NDA reporting requirement for data centersRequires data centers to report monthly and yearly water consumption and prohibits water NDAs with political subdivisions.Download
- HB 2992Oklahoma bill establishing a separate utility rate class for large loads of 75+ MW, aimed at data centers.Download
- HB1063 - Utility cost protection from data center constructionRequires electric utilities to protect residential/retail customers from costs associated with data center construction and operation.Download
- Ordinance No. O-2026-7Lawton, Oklahoma data center zoning ordinance, adopted February 24, 2026.Download
- HB4194 - Data centers; Data Center Decommissioning Act; proper decommissioning; Oklahoma Corporation Commission; financial assurance; effective date.Description comingDownload
- HB4424 - Revenue and taxation; ad valorem; exemption; manufacturing facilities; data center; effective date.Description comingDownload
- HB3397 - Data centers; defining terms; requiring Corporation Commission provide for certain classification of service; effective date.Description comingDownload
- HB3394 - Hyperscale data centers; Oklahoma Hyperscale Data Center Directory Act; Oklahoma Corporation Commission; directory; electrical utilities; water providers; effective date.Description comingDownload
Site details
- Operator
- IREN
- County
- Kiowa County, OK
- Capacity
- 1,200 MW
- Address
- Kiowa, OK
- Stage
- Planned
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