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Google Taylor Lake Data Center

Wasco County, OR

Source: OpenStreetMap

Google Taylor Lake Data Center is a mapped data center in Wasco County, OR, operated by Google LLC and ultimately owned by Alphabet Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented a 1,100,933 sq ft footprint at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 14, 2026

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Real parent
Alphabet Inc.
Operator
Google LLC
Est. capacity
~220-450 MW
Footprint
1,100,933 sq ft
Utility
Northern Wasco County PUD
Grid
BPAT
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source
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Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

The Google Taylor Lake Data Center is a 1,100,933 square foot data center in Wasco County, Oregon, operated by Google LLC and ultimately owned by Alphabet Inc. The site, currently mapped, draws electricity from Northern Wasco County PUD and sits within the BPAT balancing authority.

Operator chain

In the news

source: GDELT

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

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

Total to this operator: $31.7M
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2026 · term — yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2025 · term — yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2025 · term — yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2025 · term — yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2025 · term — yr · source
  • Chapter 312 — Midlothian Technology Reinvestment Zone No. 14 (City of Midlothian data-center zone)$16,044,286
    Ellis County, TX · granted 2024 · term — yr · source
  • Chapter 312 — Midlothian Technology Reinvestment Zone No. 14 (City of Midlothian data-center zone)$15,660,346
    Ellis County, TX · granted 2024 · term — yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2022 · term — yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2018 · 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.

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow
12
PM2.5
Good

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (The Dalles), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023
Median household income
$71.4K
People of color
31%
Below poverty
11%
Tract population
2,965

Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Chenowith Elementary School in The Dalles, is 1.3 mi from this site (384 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.