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Amazon Data Center

Heppner, Morrow County, OR

Source: Primary source

Amazon Data Center is a proposed data center in Morrow County, OR, operated by Amazon.com, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented 1,200 MW of reported power capacity at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 18, 2026

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Real parent
Amazon.com, Inc.
Operator
Amazon.com, Inc.
Power
1,200 MW
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source

Overview

source: link

Solar farm and battery storage site Imported from the FracTracker Alliance U.S. Data Centers Tracker after review. Details to be corroborated from primary sources.

Operator chain

Grid & water — why here

source: HIFLD · EPA
Nearest substation
2.0 mi
Unknown209826
Transmission line
2.2 mi
115 kV line
Municipal water
No service area
self-supplied or unmapped

The closest existing grid infrastructure and the municipal water system this location sits in — the same constraints the buildout model screens on (it won't site a campus more than ~2 km from a substation or ~5 km from municipal water). Distances are straight-line to public HIFLD/EPA features, not a metered connection.

In the news

source: GDELT

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

These tax breaks are recorded to Amazon.com, Inc. (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.

Total to this operator: $16.7M
  • Long-Term Rural Enterprise Zone (Morrow County School District 1)Tax break$16,668,806
    Morrow County School District 1, OR · granted 2024 · term — yr · source
Statewide cost of this incentive

Oregon reported $26.9M in Enterprise Zone (Long-Term Rural EZ, ORS 285C.400) property-tax abatement — Crook County (Meta Prineville campus) for FY2025 (Crook County, Oregon (audited financial statements / GASB 77 note)). Program-wide, not attributable to this site.

source · All Oregon subsidies →

Water use

No public record of this facility's water use. We check state withdrawal reporting for self-supplied sites; municipally supplied sites only become visible through a public-records request to the local water utility — a per-facility request tool is coming. If you have a utility document for this site, send it to us.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Ione Community Charter School in Ione, is 14.3 mi from this site (134 students).

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

Hearings timeline

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.

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