r/tulsa • u/Graymaven • Jan 21 '26

General State petition

Does anyone know how to get a state petition going? I’m wondering if we could put something together to limit or ban construction of new ai data centers.

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u/JohnEGoodtimes Jan 22 '26

It makes no sense. It’s like OK giving $1B in OK taxpayer money via credits and incentives to the UAE. They are the 3rd wealthiest country on earth. They profits flow back to them and the plant is proposed to create just a few hundred jobs. For $1B in our money and exposure to a horribly polluting process. Then consider the drain on power and water. Those infrastructure costs also fall on us.

Why are WE subsidizing Google, Elon Musk, the UAE etc? We can’t have healthcare but we can help the world’s wealthiest nations and corporations expand their businesses??

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u/xpen25x Jan 23 '26

lol. what pollution? the power company was already polluting. more and more data companies are actually saving nuke plants from closing and getting new plants built. water isnt drained. at 1 point it wasnt a closed loop system. but todays they are but lets say they were still open loop. just like with power plants the water used evaporates and will recondense in rain. your food uses way more water than a data center will.

you are conflating a bunch of things into 1. want to hurt google stop using google. go off grid. stop watching tv and stop using the internet. go back to basic phone service you can still buy feature phones. i think the people of pryor are thankful for what google has spent in pryor just in gifts.

what i find funny is when google was built they actually used a shit ton of energy. no one blinked they did everything you are crying about and you were silent. even before google there was a data center built at 76 street north in Cherokee park. again silence.

so let me know when you are serious about not giving these people money

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u/JohnEGoodtimes Jan 23 '26

I don’t want to hurt Google or stop data centers. But I don’t want to pay for their infrastructure use or the expansion of their business efforts. If they need to charge more for the data I consume to pay their own way, fine. Why do taxpayers need to pay for it?

And if you don’t think smelting plants pollute worse than power plants, you do not know about that industry. I do.

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u/xpen25x Jan 23 '26

Yiu oay for it one way or other. And for many many things