Skip to content
DataCentersExposed
Mapped (unverified)

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

Watch this facility (email alerts)Report a concern at this facility
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

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

Grid & water — why here

source: HIFLD · EPA
Nearest substation
0.2 mi
Chenoweth · 230 kV
Transmission line
707 ft
115 kV line
Municipal water
Served
The Dalles, City Of (modeled boundary)

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

No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.

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.

See something wrong or missing on this page? Suggest a correction.