The Data Center Consumer Ratepayer Protection Act of 2026 cleared the OK Senate unanimously and now returns to the House. Bill defines 'large load customers' as new facilities ≥75 MW grid demand; requires those customers cover their share of electricity + infrastructure costs; and — Senate amendment — requires 60 days' notice before a developer can purchase land for a major energy project, with notice to the OCC, county commissioners, and property owners within 5 miles, plus 2 weeks of newspaper publication and a public meeting.
Primary source · Oklahoma Farm Report ↗
Why it matters
75 MW is now the shared threshold across TX SB 6 (PUCT 25.194), ERCOT Batch Zero, and OK HB 2992. That's the canonical 'large load' definition for the regulatory-knowledge-graph wedge. The 60-day land-purchase + 5-mile public-meeting trigger is a *new* regulatory primitive — it imports a county-zoning-style transparency requirement into state law, and it's the first rule that fires *before* a developer even files for interconnection. This is the kind of pre-interconnection notification surface paces.md / landgate.md / transect.md don't currently track. Add a row to byog-byong-state-patchwork.md and flag for v1-strategy-audit.md as a new pre-IA regulatory clock to watch in OK.
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