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Meta's East Tulsa Data Center Puts a Price on Its First Foundation

A City of Tulsa permit dated Oct. 20 puts a reported $52.2 million on the foundation for the first 411,564-square-foot building at Meta's Project Anthem, Oklahoma's first Meta data center.

By Morningline Research · October 27, 2026

Meta's data center in east Tulsa now has a dollar figure on its first big piece of concrete. A City of Tulsa permit dated Oct. 20 covers the "Data Center 1 foundation, 411,564 sq ft" at 21304 E. 11th St. S., with a reported value of $52.2 million.

That's the foundation alone. It is the first city permit we've seen at the address, and the first public price we've found on a specific piece of the build.

Six months from groundbreaking to Building 1

Timeline of Meta's Project Anthem in east Tulsa, from the council's March vote to the October foundation permit
Graphic: Morningline Research, from City of Tulsa permit records and the reporting linked in this story.

Meta broke ground on April 21 and said the finished campus will represent more than $1 billion in investment. It is the company's first data center in Oklahoma, its 28th in the U.S. and its 32nd worldwide, according to Meta. Before the announcement, the project went by a code name, Project Anthem, and Meta confirmed it was the company behind it, Public Radio Tulsa reported.

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The Oklahoma Department of Commerce puts the campus at more than 2 million square feet. So the building in this permit is one piece of a much larger plan. The permit's own words are short: "Data Center 1." There's no Data Center 2 in our records yet.

The $52.2 million is the estimate reported to the city, not a contract amount.

A site Tulsa set aside two decades ago

Phase one sits on 340 acres at the Fair Oaks Industrial Park near 11th Street and the Creek Turnpike, on Tulsa's far east side, News On 6 reported. Our permit record lists a Catoosa mailing address.

Fair Oaks covers 2,000 acres and is Oklahoma's first REDI Site, a certification for land that's ready for industry, according to the state Commerce Department. Meta is its first anchor tenant. Michelle Barnett of PartnerTulsa, the city's development agency, tied the deal to a plan for the site from more than 20 years ago: "with the arrival of the first anchor tenant, that vision is becoming a reality."

The work it brings

Aerial view of downtown Tulsa
Downtown Tulsa from the air, April 2023. Photo: Nils Huenerfuerst, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped).

Meta says about 1,000 construction workers will be on site at peak, and about 100 people will run the place once it opens. The company is also putting more than $25 million into local roads and water lines, and it is paying for a program with Tulsa Tech and Tulsa Community College that it expects to turn out more than 200 graduates a year in data center trades such as fiber optics, structured cabling and cooling.

Tulsa Tech has its own project in our records this month: a permit for a new office, classroom and lab building at 3420 S. Memorial Drive, reported at $83.7 million.

On taxes, Meta has a 25-year Tax Incentive District deal. It will pay the City of Tulsa $62.5 million in lieu of taxes and get an 85% exemption on its yearly property tax bill, KJRH reported. The remaining 15% is expected to bring in more than $36 million over the life of the deal for the city, Wagoner County, Catoosa Public Schools and other taxing bodies, according to the district plan cited by KJRH.

Exempt from Tulsa's pause

In late March the Tulsa City Council voted unanimously to pause new data centers for nine months while planners write zoning rules for them, according to News On 6. Both phases of Project Anthem were exempted.

Days later the developer, Atmoss, withdrew its rezoning request for a second phase on about 375 more acres, News On 6 reported. Carson Colvin of the city said the developer was "exploring options" and that a phase two is still possible.

Phase one kept going. The foundation permit is its biggest step on paper so far.

Part of a national run

Tulsa's project lands in the middle of a boom. Construction spending on data centers rose 7.5% in August from July and is up more than 73% over the past year, Construction Dive reported, citing an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of Census figures.

The next permits to watch at Fair Oaks are the building itself on top of that foundation, and whether a second data center number ever shows up.

How we count

The permit comes from the City of Tulsa's permit records for 21304 E. 11th St. S., dated Oct. 20, 2026. The value is the one reported on the permit. Company names and project details come from the reporting linked here.

See Tulsa's latest permit numbers, updated weekly.

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