The Sovereignty Question

On March 7, the Seminole Nation General Council voted 24-0 to impose a complete moratorium on data center development within its jurisdiction. Then Tulsa, Oklahoma City, and Pawhuska followed with unanimous municipal moratoria. A moratorium wave — tribal, municipal, and grassroots — is moving faster than the industry anticipated. Who decides what a data center owes the community it occupies? Oklahoma is finding out.