Mayes County, Oklahoma

County ranked by announced AI data-center load

Undisclosed Announced AI load

Campuses

Lead operator

Google

Resi rate Δ (GRDA)

n/a

Home price Δ (3y)

+4.2%

Property tax Δ (3y)

+13.4%

Population (2024 ACS)

40K

Median HH income (2024 ACS)

$60,305

Key takeaways

Mayes County has 39,406 residents and a median household income of $57,279. Only 16.5% of residents over 25 hold a bachelor's degree, the second-lowest education base in any batch-3 county.Source: Census ACS 2023 B01003, B19013, B15003 (Mayes County, OK)
Pryor's MidAmerica Industrial Park hosts more than 80 companies including Google, DuPont, and Nordam, with its own airport and a 5,000-foot runway. Google has invested $2.5 billion in its Pryor campus over two phases, making it the company's second-largest data center globally.Source: sources[0] (Wikipedia: Pryor Creek, OK)
Grand River Dam Authority is a state-owned wholesale utility, so EIA does not publish a residential rate delta for Mayes County. The bill-side impact of the Google load is invisible in the standard data even though GRDA is the named seller of record.Source: data/cache/utility_rate_yoy.csv (no GRDA row) + data/sites/data_centers.csv
Property tax assessments rose 13.4% over three years against a 4.2% home-price gain. The gap is the widest of any batch-3 county and reflects industrial assessments running ahead of residential, the standard signature of a single large taxpayer like Google MidAmerica.Source: data/cache/property_tax_yoy.csv + data/cache/realestate_yoy.csv (FIPS 40097)

Mayes County is only 63.8% white and includes a substantial Cherokee Nation citizen population, with the MidAmerica Industrial Park sitting inside the Cherokee Nation reservation boundary reaffirmed by McGirt v Oklahoma.Source: Census ACS 2023 B02001 (Mayes County, OK)
17.6% of Mayes residents live below the poverty line and 6.6% are unemployed, the highest combined economic stress in any batch-3 county. Google's Pryor expansion is therefore the largest single private payroll in a county where wage absorption matters more than the marginal kilowatt-hour.Source: Census ACS 2023 B17001 and B23025 (Mayes County, OK)
Only 86.1% of Mayes households have wired broadband, leaving roughly 2,100 of the 15,267 occupied units without a fixed connection. The same county that hosts one of Google's largest global compute footprints has a residential connectivity gap larger than the population of its second-largest town.Source: Census ACS 2023 B28002 (Mayes County, OK)
Veterans are 9.1% of Mayes adults 18 and over, well above the national 6.2% baseline. Camp Gruber and the Tulsa veteran-services network feed a labor pool that hyperscale operations teams routinely recruit from.Source: Census ACS 2023 B21001 (Mayes County, OK)