Oklahoma

Data Center Customer Ratepayer Protection Act of 2026 (HB 2992)

Enacted legislation or regulation

In effect This instrument is recorded as currently in effect as of the dataset date.

Scope

The Data Center Customer Ratepayer Protection Act of 2026, 17 O.S. sections 900 through 906, applies to all retail electric suppliers serving load in Oklahoma. It defines a large load customer to include a new data center, new cryptocurrency mining operation or new facility primarily used for artificial-intelligence computing that contracts to add at least 75 megawatts per facility or behind one interconnection point after 1 July 2026; an entity that builds generation for a behind-the-meter project is excluded. Governing bodies must protect other customers from unjust rates caused by service to these large loads. Electric suppliers must maintain separate service terms and tariffs, including credit and cost-recovery protections, with a service term of at least ten years except for the act's municipal-financing rule. A covered customer or representative that buys land outside an industrial development park or municipality must notify the Corporation Commission, county commissioners and abutting owners within 60 days. Failure to give that notice is subject to an administrative penalty of $1,500 per day per violation.

Geographic scope
Oklahoma
Jurisdiction
State
Authority type
Legislature
Issuing authority
Oklahoma Legislature

Dates

Adopted
11 May 2026
Effective
1 July 2026
Scheduled expiration
See completion condition
Ended
Not recorded as ended
Completion condition
The act states no expiration.
Source document
5 May 2026
Last checked
24 September 2026 (earlier than tracker date 5 October 2026; not an automatic status change)

Summary

Oklahoma's HB 2992 requires separate electric-service terms and tariffs for new data centers and certain other new large loads of at least 75 megawatts, assigns their costs under cost-causation principles, and generally requires a service term of at least ten years. It also requires a covered customer or representative buying land outside an industrial development park or municipality to notify the Corporation Commission, county commissioners and abutting owners within 60 days, with a $1,500-per-day administrative penalty for failing to give notice. The Governor approved the act on 11 May 2026, and the current codification records it as effective 1 July 2026.

What this does not establish

  • The large-load definition does not cover every Oklahoma data center. It applies to the specified new facilities that contract to add at least 75 megawatts after 1 July 2026 and excludes entities that build generation for behind-the-meter projects.
  • The land-purchase notice applies only outside an industrial development park or a municipality. This record does not extend it to every Oklahoma land purchase or project.
  • The enrolled act contains both a 1 July 2026 effective-date clause and an emergency clause. The current Oklahoma Statutes history records the act as emergency-effective 1 July 2026.
  • Whether a supplier has filed a compliant tariff, or whether any notice, attestation or administrative penalty has been filed, was not established.

Unresolved questions

  • What documentation the Commission requires before a covered facility is inaugurated, beyond the attestation form linked from its implementation page.

Relationships

Supersession means a later instrument replaces the earlier legal effect. Repeal links identify the repeal instrument and the measure it ends. A later implementation or related letter is not treated as a replacement unless the record says so.

  • No related action is recorded.

Sources

Primary source

https://www.oklegislature.gov/cf_pdf/2025-26%20ENR/hB/HB2992%20ENR.PDF

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