Broken Arrow OK data center moratorium (2026)

Broken Arrow, Okla. (Tulsa County) — MORATORIUM ON ANY DATA CENTER PROPOSALS approved by the City Council in JUNE 2026, EXPIRING AT YEAR'S END (2026-12-31), with EXTENSION UNDER ACTIVE CONSIDERATION as of September 15, 2026. STATED PURPOSE: to let city officials investigate the impacts of large-scale data centers on local resources and create appropriate regulations. STATUS REPORT, 2026-09-15: City Manager MICHAEL SPURGEON stated the city is STILL STUDYING potential impacts, that THERE ARE NO IMMINENT PROJECTS, that 'the administration has not reached any conclusions or prepared to make any recommendations,' and that the city is 'performing our due diligence and not anywhere close to making a recommendation.' He expressly rebutted social-media claims that a data center development is a foregone conclusion. THE TRIGGERING PROJECT HAS LAPSED: in June the city learned of plans for a proposed data center on 51 ACRES in the 8500 BLOCK OF S. [street name truncated in the retrieved text], but THE LETTER OF INTENT TO SELL THE PROPERTY EXPIRED AND WAS NOT RENEWED. This is a documented instance of the pattern recorded at Marshalltown IA 4-month data center moratorium and elsewhere — the pause outliving the proposal that prompted it — and of the withdrawal pattern recorded for Southeast Raleigh, where a developer withdrew an annexation request in August 2026. enacted_date and effective_date of 2026-06-01 ARE PLACEHOLDERS: the source gives only 'June' with no day. EXACT TERM LENGTH IS NOT STATED; only the June adoption and year-end expiry are given. ORDINANCE NUMBER NOT OBTAINED. VOTE TALLY NOT STATED.