Project Thunderbird (Enid)
Plainsmen Holdings, LLC · Enid, OK · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- ProposedSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 36.3967623, -97.8791341
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Not established
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Source record updated
- 2026-09-14
Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.
Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.
Reported lifecycle history
- Proposed
Unveiled publicly by Plainsmen Holdings; no city approvals, formal agreements or MOUs signed. Final approval would rest with the Enid City Commission.
Underlying source
Source notes
Four proposed campuses along a single corridor in Enid and Garfield County (sites north, east, west-central and south of Enid; Enid News & Eagle names 22nd and Phillips, 5th and Rupe, and South 5th south of Rupe). Acreage is reported as 1,735 by Oklahoma Energy Today and ~1,655 by the Enid News & Eagle — the larger figure is recorded here and the discrepancy is unresolved. Coordinates are the city of Enid: this is a four-campus proposal with no single footprint. The $35 billion investment figure appears only in secondary coverage and is omitted here. Briefed to Vance Air Force Base and the Department of the Air Force, but nothing has been signed.
Behind-the-meter natural-gas-fired generation of up to 3.3 GW, developed in partnership with a midstream energy provider, enabled by Oklahoma's 2025 behind-the-meter law (SB 480). The developers also describe the plant as a backup supply to Vance Air Force Base. Generation capacity is the developers' stated figure, not a permitted or interconnected number.
Sources and provenance
- UPDATED: Enid natives announce local data center, power generation project · source retrieved 2026-09-14
- Massive data center campus unveiled for Enid · source retrieved 2026-09-14
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.