Google Lands in Oklahoma
Wow--just got this across the wire: a $6
00 million data center project for Google has been sited in in Pryor, OK (about 45 minutes from Tulsa). It'll create 200 jobs averaging $48,000 in salary. Frankly, that's more jobs and salary than I would have guessed--rural Oklahoma is not an expensive area.
Now I have to tell you I've been out to MidAmerica, and it is quite a site. And quite a sight. The place is, uh, "ginormous" as they say: we're talking 9,000 acres with its own airport and coal-fired power plant (see photo, right). About 70 companies employ 4,000 people there. I actually
slept in the park, alone, at the Russel Hunt Lodge (see photo, left). (Yes, I was invited to do so.)
MidAmerica owns its own water treatment and distribution system, which if you're into business parks, is quite rare. I believe, if memory serves, that the park was originally a munitions manufacturing complex during WWII, explaining its vast size, remote location, self sufficiency, and rail service through the middle of the park.
What a perfect place for a data center, in other words.
No word on who Mid America beat out to win this, but we do know that Google is taking advantage of the following incentives:
Economic Development Incentives
Taxes Google will pay (after all economic development incentives)
posted by Karim Khan at
4:59 PM
00 million data center project for Google has been sited in in Pryor, OK (about 45 minutes from Tulsa). It'll create 200 jobs averaging $48,000 in salary. Frankly, that's more jobs and salary than I would have guessed--rural Oklahoma is not an expensive area.Now I have to tell you I've been out to MidAmerica, and it is quite a site. And quite a sight. The place is, uh, "ginormous" as they say: we're talking 9,000 acres with its own airport and coal-fired power plant (see photo, right). About 70 companies employ 4,000 people there. I actually
slept in the park, alone, at the Russel Hunt Lodge (see photo, left). (Yes, I was invited to do so.)MidAmerica owns its own water treatment and distribution system, which if you're into business parks, is quite rare. I believe, if memory serves, that the park was originally a munitions manufacturing complex during WWII, explaining its vast size, remote location, self sufficiency, and rail service through the middle of the park.
What a perfect place for a data center, in other words.
No word on who Mid America beat out to win this, but we do know that Google is taking advantage of the following incentives:
Economic Development Incentives
- State statutory sales tax exemptions and ad valorem property tax exemptions
- Oklahoma Quality Jobs Program has been offered by the State and may be pursued
Taxes Google will pay (after all economic development incentives)
- Real and personal property: Tax exemptions expire after 5 years.
- Sales tax: Estimated $6 million in just the next 2 years from the purchase of building materials.
- Other: Payroll taxes (with the exception of any rebates obtained through the Quality Jobs Program, if any), sales tax from non-exempted purchases, corporate income taxes.
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