Data Center Registry
Project Emerald (Kiowa)
Kiowa, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma · All 4 IREN sites
Project Emerald (Kiowa) is a proposed data center in Kiowa, Oklahoma (Pittsburg County), operated by IREN. The public record puts it at announced April 2026, 2,000 acres. It is the subject of active public debate, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition on record.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- IREN
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- Kiowa, Pittsburg County, OK
- Coordinates
- 34.7207, -95.8992 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- 2,000 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- April 2026
- Utility
- Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO)
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Not established
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- Contested
- Source confidence
- Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing
Timeline from the record
Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.
- April 21, 2026ProposedPittsburg County Tax Incentive District review committee voted to advance an economic development plan tied to the project to the participating taxing entities. Source: KJRH
Opposition and litigation at this site
Yes. Project Emerald (Kiowa) in Kiowa, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. Residents raised concerns over electricity costs, water use, noise, property values, pre-existing oil leases and grid reliability; two public meetings were scheduled at Kiowa High School in May 2026.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: contested means active public debate is on record, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition, without litigation.
Residents raised concerns over electricity costs, water use, noise, property values, pre-existing oil leases and grid reliability; two public meetings were scheduled at Kiowa High School in May 2026.
Power and water
IREN representative Jason Date told KJRH the campus would draw power from PSO.
IREN says water would come from the City of Kiowa, with the possibility of hauling water in from outside the county or state if needed, and states it is "confident it would not use excess water quantities." Residents at the April 2026 hearings cited a ~5 million gallons/day operating figure as a concern; that figure is a community claim, not an operator-reported number.
Notes on the record
Proposed 2,000-acre campus along U.S. Highway 69 just south of Kiowa in Pittsburg County, with an alternative siting roughly 8 miles south in Atoka County also under consideration; both sides of Highway 69 are in play. Coordinates are the town of Kiowa, not a parcel-confirmed footprint. This is a DIFFERENT IREN site from the already-tracked IREN Woods County campus in northwest Oklahoma. Capacity and investment figures circulating in secondary coverage were not stated in the two sources read here, so they are deliberately omitted.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Power capacity in megawatts
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
Which document closes each gap
- Power capacity in megawatts
- The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Project Emerald (Kiowa) data center in Kiowa?
Yes. Project Emerald (Kiowa) in Kiowa, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. Residents raised concerns over electricity costs, water use, noise, property values, pre-existing oil leases and grid reliability; two public meetings were scheduled at Kiowa High School in May 2026.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Project Emerald (Kiowa) data center?
No lawsuit over Project Emerald (Kiowa) appears in the record we track as of September 14, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Project Emerald (Kiowa) use?
No water withdrawal figure for Project Emerald (Kiowa) is on record here. Cooling is recorded as unknown, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Project Emerald (Kiowa), and how big is it?
IREN is the operator on record. We hold 4 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 2000 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Project Emerald (Kiowa)," updated September 14, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/iren-project-emerald-kiowa-ok.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.0 (September 21, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/iren-project-emerald-kiowa-ok, retrieved September 30, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.'Project Emerald': AI data center plan in Pittsburg County moving forward · KJRH · retrieved September 14, 2026
- 2.Proposed data center concerns residents · McAlester News-Capital · retrieved September 14, 2026
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