Cerebras AI data center (Oklahoma City)
Also called: Scale Datacenter OKC
AI chip company Cerebras runs a 10-megawatt AI computing center in Oklahoma City. It reused an existing data center building.
Where things stand: Opened Sept 2025 in a former energy company data center.
🕒 Latest update (Sept 22, 2025): Cerebras opened its AI data center in Oklahoma City with Scale Datacenter.
What we know
- 📍 WhereFormer Chesapeake/Expand Energy data center building in north Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County
- 🏢 CompanyScale Datacenter
- 👤 Built forCerebras Systems
- ⚡ Power it needs10 megawatts (about as much as 8,000 homes)
- ❄️ Coolingclosed-loop direct-to-chip water cooling
❓ Still unanswered
Nobody has answered these in public yet. Can you help find out?
- Is the OKC Council's May 2026 moratorium exemption for the Expand Energy campus tied to expanding this site? 🙋 I'll find out
What happened so far
- Sept 22, 2025Cerebras opened its AI data center in Oklahoma City with Scale Datacenter.
Local votes and rules
⏸️ Pause on new data centers
City Council voted 7-2 to narrow its data center pause. It now covers only large data centers that use more than 75 megawatts of power. Sites at the Expand Energy campus and near the OKC Outlet Mall were also exempted.
⏸️ Pause on new data centers
Oklahoma City Council voted unanimously to stop taking new applications, rezonings and building permits for data centers until December 31, 2026, or sooner if the city adopts data center zoning rules. Two pending data center rezoning cases were left out of the pause, and owners can appeal.
An aerial photo of the area.
Where this comes from
- Cerebras Oklahoma City datacenter · Cerebras · Sept 22, 2025
- Where are data centers being built across Oklahoma? · News 9 · June 10, 2026
- After pausing data center development, OKC city council adds exemptions · KGOU · May 21, 2026
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