(Phillip Jackson / Tulsa Flyer)
When the Coweta city council meets Monday night, it will be before a packed hall as council members prepare to review a request for a data center that has drawn heavy opposition.
The council will consider a recommendation of its Planning Commission which voted last week to deny rezoning the site for the Project Atlas project. The vote came after members heard two hours of comments, pro and con. But many of the residents spoke against it.
“”I do intend on selling my home if this does come to fruition,” a speaker against Project Atlas said. “I don’t want to live next to a data center.”
Beale Infrastructure will own and lease the center which according to information on the Coweta city website, “will be a cloud server, not an AI server.” The site said the end user has yet to be named but “is described as one of the major U.S. tech giants.”
There has been heated opposition since the proposal came to light last year. As the Tulsa Flyer reported earlier this month, opponents told city council members they do not want the data center.
Developer Beale Infrastructure first contacted Coweta officials in May 2024 and later purchased 200 acres, making it the second of its two projects being built in the Tulsa metropolitan area. The developer held a community open house for Coweta residents in October, but has since delayed several meetings amid resident complaints, reported the Flyer.