Muskogee County, Oklahoma

County ranked by announced AI data-center load

70 MW Announced AI load

Campuses

Lead operator

Core Scientific

Resi rate Δ (Oklahoma Gas & Electric)

+3.3%

Home price Δ (3y)

+19.7%

Property tax Δ (3y)

+11.5%

Population (2024 ACS)

66K

Median HH income (2024 ACS)

$53,619

Key takeaways

Muskogee County has 66,471 residents and a median household income of $51,999, the lowest of any batch-3 county. The city of Muskogee itself has 36,878 residents and was proposed as the capital of the Native-American-led State of Sequoyah in 1905.Source: Census ACS 2023 B01003, B19013 (Muskogee County, OK) + sources[0] (Wikipedia: Muskogee, OK)
Home prices rose 19.7% over three years against a median home value of $138,800, the largest percent gain on the smallest base in any batch-3 county. The Core Scientific 70 MW build for CoreWeave is small relative to Pryor next door but landed in a market that already moved on the announcement.Source: data/cache/realestate_yoy.csv (FIPS 40101) + Census ACS 2023 B25077 + data/sites/data_centers.csv
OG&E's Oklahoma residential rate rose only 3.3% from 2021 to 2023, the smallest delta of any batch-3 county. That adds about $40 per year to a typical bill and reflects OG&E's vertically integrated cost structure across 710,123 residential customers.Source: data/cache/utility_rate_yoy.csv (Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co, OK)
Stardust Power broke ground on a $1.2 billion lithium refinery in Muskogee in January 2025, and Google announced two additional Oklahoma data centers in November 2025 as part of a $9 billion state investment. The 70 MW CoreWeave site is the leading edge of a much bigger industrial bet on Muskogee.Source: sources[0] (Wikipedia: Muskogee, OK)

Muskogee County is just 55.9% white, the most racially diverse county in the batch-3 set after Franklin OH. The Five Civilized Tribes Museum sits in the county seat, and Cherokee, Muscogee, and Choctaw citizen populations overlap the Core Scientific build's labor shed.Source: Census ACS 2023 B02001 (Muskogee County, OK)
Only 76.2% of Muskogee households subscribe to wired broadband, the lowest connectivity rate in any batch-3 county and behind even Mayes next door. A county hosting a 70 MW AI training site has nearly one in four homes without a fixed internet connection.Source: Census ACS 2023 B28002 (Muskogee County, OK)
Muskogee's 20.3% poverty rate is the highest in the batch-3 set, and 9.2% of adults are veterans. The Core Scientific build, the Stardust lithium refinery, and the announced Google expansion are landing in a county where one in five residents lives below the federal poverty line.Source: Census ACS 2023 B17001 and B21001 (Muskogee County, OK)
Manufacturing employs 14.4% of the Muskogee workforce, and the county's median rent of $824 is the lowest of any batch-3 county. CoreWeave's tenants are arriving in a market with both the rent base and the skilled-trades inventory to absorb a build without immediate displacement.Source: Census ACS 2023 C24050 and B25064 (Muskogee County, OK)