Oklahoma city council members welcomed a Google data center. Now they face a recall.
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By Bracey Harris
Published on March 25, 2026.
The city manager of Sand Springs, Oklahoma, has been targeted by a recall campaign against the entire City Council, including Mayor Jim Spoon, following a Google data center expansion. The opposition argues that the public has been kept in the dark about the project, Project Spring, which Google plans to build on 827 acres of farmland outside town. The city manager, Mike Carter, believes the proposed data center will provide jobs, money, and prosperity for the 20,000 residents of the suburb. However, critics argue that the project should not be rezoned for an agricultural area when the city already has an industrial zone. At least five recall efforts have targeted officials over their support for data centers since 2022, but no yet made it to the ballot. So far, the group has roughly 50% of the nearly 5,000 signatures needed to get the recalls on the ballot by March 31.
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