Oklahoma enacts a statewide moratorium on new data centers by June 30, 2027.

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Six frontier AI models put this at 4% by 1 Jul 2027. The market says 18%. Full reasoning from every model.

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4% — the median of 6 frontier models, resolving by 2027-07-01.

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Gemini (Google): 4% — Oklahoma's pro-business, energy-abundant legislature favors economic development and utility tariff reforms over blanket bans. The GOP supermajority and Governor Stitt prioritize attracting capital investment and energy industry expansion. Grid concerns are historically handled via Southwestern Power Pool queue rules or utility rate design, not state moratoria. A catastrophic, widespread grid reliability failure directly linked to hyperscalers would be required to shift policy.

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Claude (Anthropic): 3% — Oklahoma's GOP-led government actively courts data centers for jobs/tax revenue, making a moratorium highly unlikely. Oklahoma has pursued data center investment aggressively (incentive bills, utility deals), opposite of a moratorium stance. No pending legislation or political momentum toward a statewide ban exists as of late 2025/2026. Base rate for any state enacting a full moratorium within ~9 months is very low; only local/county pauses have occurred elsewhere.

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GPT (OpenAI): 7% — Oklahoma’s pro-development posture makes a statewide legislative ban far less likely than narrower power or incentive controls. The Legislature and governor would need to enact a binding statewide prohibition during the 2027 regular session, ending about late May. Comparable state responses to large-load growth usually tighten interconnection, rates, or incentives rather than ban data centers outright. I would raise this sharply if SPP/OGE reliability forecasts trigger emergency curtailments or a filed Oklahoma moratorium bill gains leadership backing.

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Grok (xAI): 7% — Oklahoma’s 2027 session must pass a binding statewide halt on >100 MW data centers. Legislature convenes Jan 2027 and adjourns by late May; Stitt and GOP majorities have never backed construction bans. No comparable statewide moratorium has passed in any energy-exporting red state; Georgia only paused tax credits. A grid-emergency bill or local-preemption fight would be the only path that could flip this, neither of which is queued.

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DeepSeek (DeepSeek): 4% — Oklahoma's legislature meets only ~4 months a year and its leadership is courting data-center investment, not banning it. Oklahoma's 2026 session runs Feb-May; a moratorium bill would need to clear a GOP caucus that has passed data-center tax incentives, not restrictions. No US state has enacted a statewide data-center moratorium; the closest precedents are local (e.g., Memphis-area and Georgia county pauses) and defeated bills in… Oklahoma's grid and water politics are real but localized, so any action would more likely be a siting study or utility tariff than a statewide ban.

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Qwen (Alibaba): 4% — Oklahoma is a pro-business, energy-producing state with no active moratorium bill and strong incentives to attract data center investment. Oklahoma's legislature adjourned in May 2025 with no data center moratorium bill filed; the next session starts Feb 2026, leaving ~16 months but no sponsor or committee… The state has actively courted data centers—Oklahoma's low energy costs and available land are marketed as competitive advantages; a moratorium would contradict the… No other state has enacted a full data center moratorium as of late 2025; the closest analogs are local utility-level delays, not binding statewide bans, making the base…

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