| | | Cerebras expands OKC data center, now one of the largest worldwide
By : Chip Minty//The Journal Record//September 24, 2025
OKLAHOMA CITY — Silicon Valley has arrived in Oklahoma City with one of the largest data centers on the planet, serving hundreds of customers from around the globe and pulling enough electricity from OG&E to power a small city.
“This is a big facility,” said Andrew Feldman, chief executive of Cerebras, based in Sunnyvale, in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley region. “It’s not the biggest. Elon Musk has some of the largest facilities, but we have faster machines and there’s a balance, so it’s among the larger deployments in the world.”
To put that into perspective, Feldman told the media on Monday that his new OKC data center has 20 times more computing capacity than the U.S. government’s largest supercomputer. And he says Cerebras offers the fastest AI infrastructure in the world due to breakthrough computer technology custom designed to meet the AI challenge head on.
According to the company’s website, its “Wafer-Scale Engine 3” processor contains 4 trillion transistors and is purpose built for ultra-fast AI.
In a high-tech world where smaller is better, Cerebras is breaking the mold, claiming its wafer is 56 times larger than the industry’s smallest chip, and can process data with more speed and efficiency than its rivals.
“Historically, there was a limit to how big you could make a chip,” Feldman said. “But AI brought to computing a new type of problem, and the problem benefited from a bigger chip.”
So, Cerebras set out to build the largest chip in the history of the computer industry, he said. Despite a chorus of people saying it would never work, “we proved them all wrong.”
Cerebras has facilities in Santa Clara and in Stockton, Calif. It also has facilities in Minneapolis, Minn. and Dallas. The Oklahoma City data center is the fifth in the company’s continuing expansion, and business conditions in Oklahoma fit what his company needed.
“When you look for a location for new facilities, you look for a collection of things, such as a business-friendly environment and skilled trade labor,” Feldman said. “You’re looking for reasonably priced electricity. And you’re looking for a low tax state. These were all things that the leadership in the state of Oklahoma chose to manifest here.”
The OKC operation has created about 100 jobs in the community, and the data center requires around 10 megawatts of power. That’s enough energy to power a small city, Troy Foreman, data center facility manager said.
Located on the eastern fringe of Expand Energy’s corporate campus at NW 63rd and Classen Blvd, the 100,000-square foot facility was built in 2012 as a data center operated by Chesapeake Energy, which eventually became Expand Energy, said Billy Wooten, data center engineer and chief operating officer of the facility.
The date center building is now owned by Scale, an international data center operator, which acquired the property from Expand Energy in April, Wooten said. Scale opened the door for Cerebras to renovate the building and install processors equipped with the company’s new processing technology.
Because of Oklahoma’s vulnerability to severe weather, the building was built to withstand an F5 tornado, which can carry wind speeds of up to 318 mph, said Wooten. He designed the building for Chesapeake.
Cerebras CEO Feldman declined to disclose how much money his company has invested in its new OKC operations, saying only that it was “a lot,” and that he’s not finished. Soon, Cerebras will fill several hundred square feet of additional space with more servers, and it is actively seeking other buildings to occupy on Expand Energy’s neighboring campus.
“We have such enormous demand,” Feldman said. “We can’t build data centers fast enough. And right now, we’re in a massive expansion phase.”
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