$9 billion spending planned in Oklahoma as Google expands ties

  • August 13, 2025

Business and community leaders joined Gov. Kevin Stitt and Ruth Porat, president and chief investment officer of Alphabet and Google, to discuss the impact of Google's new two-year $9 billion investment in Pryor, Oklahoma.

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Google executives were in Pryor on Wednesday to announce the company plans to spend $9 billion over the next two years in the state.

Google will expand its data center in Pryor and also build a new data center at Stillwater. The Pryor Google center is 14 years old and handles cloud storage and artificial intelligence for the company.

The existing data center opened in 2011 and handles a portion of the services that Google provides, like cloud storage and artificial intelligence. The company has invested $4.4 billion there already.

FILE PHOTO: A Google logo is seen at a company research facility in Mountain View, California, U.S., May 13, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo

Google’s President and Chief Investment Officer, Ruth Porat was in Pryor to make the announcement and also reveal that Google intens to create a partnership with the electrical training ALLIANCE to train the labor force for a new energy infrastructure. Also known as etA, it publishes education materials for the electrical industry.
Porat also announced Google plans to create a partnership with Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma to prepare students and develop critical AI and job-readiness skills.
She said the ccompany is helping to power a new era of American innovation with its Oklahoma investments.
“For nearly two decades, Google has proudly called Oklahoma home, starting with our data center in Mayes County, our second largest in the world. With today’s announcement, we’re accelerating that commitment with an additional $9 billion investment over the next two years in AI and cloud infrastructure, workforce development, and education.”

The commitment for $9 billion in spending in Oklahoma shouldn’t be a major challenge to Google which recently reported its second quarter earnings. Its parent company,Alphabet Inc. earned $28.2 billion or $2.31 per share for the April-June period.

Revenue shot up 14% from a year ago to reach $96.4 billion.

“We had a standout quarter, with robust growth across the company. We are at the leading frontier of AI,” Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai boasted in the July earnings report.

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Jerry Bohnen