Google Project Spring (Tulsa) data center, Sand Springs, Oklahoma

Google's Project Spring, a data center campus on the 827-acre former Ringle Ranch near Oklahoma 97 and 56th Street North in Sand Springs, now belongs to a Google subsidiary, and in August 2026 a Tulsa County judge dismissed, for now, a residents' lawsuit against its rezoning. Sand Springs is a Tulsa suburb of about 20,000 people, and the Google data center site lies several miles outside town.

The Sand Springs City Council annexed the land in June 2025 at the owners' request and voted 6-1 in February 2026 to rezone it from agriculture for the data center. In May the council approved a development agreement with Horizon Land Development LLC and Design LLC, acting for Google, and on July 1 the Ringle family sold the ranch; a day later it passed to Horizon Land Development, which City Manager Mike Carter described as a Google subsidiary. Project Spring would have at least one data center and as many as three. Construction is slated to begin in 2027, with operation planned for 2029. City officials expect at least 1,000 construction jobs and 200 permanent jobs; Google did not confirm those figures.

The fight has been over how the land came into the city. Neighbors of the site live in Osage County, outside the city, and cannot vote in city elections. Rick Plummer, whose 165-acre horse ranch fence line is about 300 feet from the property, said his real estate agent warned him to prepare for a seven-figure loss in property value. "Nobody protected the poor ag guy," Plummer said. "You cannot just keep it a secret from the whole town and then drop it in their laps," said Kyle Schmidt, president of the Protect Sand Springs Alliance. Mayor Jim Spoon told the crowd at the February vote that it was a yes-or-no choice because Sand Springs would not get another chance at a data center.

A campaign to recall city councilors failed in April 2026 when the city found the petitions did not have the required number of verified signatures, with many signers not registered in the right ward or living outside Sand Springs. Three lawsuits are in play: one challenging the annexation, one by the Alliance challenging the rezoning, and one in Osage County by Land Legacy. Land Legacy, a Tulsa-based land conservation nonprofit, alleges the landowner violated a land agreement by letting the city use the property for the data center. In August 2026, Tulsa County District Judge Tracy Priddy dismissed the Alliance's rezoning suit for lack of standing but gave the plaintiffs 20 days to amend it. "The case was only dismissed in its current form, and we have the opportunity to amend our petition, which we will do," Schmidt said.

The land has been sold, Carter said, and "there's just a couple pieces of litigation to go through and then we think the project will start." The next decisions are in the courts, in the amended rezoning case, the annexation case and the Land Legacy suit.