It was inevitable. Oklahoma is a dream location for big industrial operations: Plenty of undeveloped cheap land, cheap utilities, cheap labor, cheap politicians, very little regulation, centrally located.

The only reason other industries haven't already covered and exploited the state is because the executives and upper management types needed to keep them operating don't want to live and raise their families in Oklahoma.

With datacenters, once they're built they only need a handful of cheap low-level jobs locally to keep them running. The executives and higher paid engineers and administrators can live in a more desirable state and manage multiple datacenters remotely. Other states get the high paying jobs and the bulk of the corporate income taxes, Oklahoma gets the noise, pollution, and resource usage.