Oregon State Data Center
530 Airport Road Southeast · Salem, Marion County, OR
Source: OpenStreetMap
Oregon State Data Center is a mapped data center in Marion County, OR. DataCentersExposed has documented a 46,536 sq ft footprint at this site.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 14, 2026
Overview
source: linkThe Oregon State Data Center is a mapped data center in Salem, Marion County, Oregon, identified in records as a State of Oregon data center. Its reported footprint is 46,536 square feet. The site draws power from Salem Electric inside the BPAT balancing authority. Operator and ownership details beyond the state designation are not listed in available records.
Grid & water — why here
source: HIFLD · EPAThe 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: Google News- $5.1B Oakline AI Data Center Proposal Emerges in Salem, Oregon After 16-Month Confidential ReviewConstruction Review· Jul 15, 2026
- OR: MASSIVE $5B DATA CENTER PROPOSED FOR SALEMLocal 3 News· Jul 15, 2026
- Massive $5.1B data center proposed for Salem draws praise and pushbackKCBY· Jul 15, 2026
- Salem Showdown Over $5.1 Billion Data Center GambleHoodline· Jul 14, 2026
- Data center pitched for southeast Salem's Mill Creek Corporate CenterStatesman Journal· Jul 14, 2026
- UPDATED: Salem discloses proposed Mill Creek data center project after city released from NDASalem Reporter· Jul 14, 2026
Data-center discussions in Marion County
source: LocalView (CC0)Local-government meetings in this county that discussed data centers, each cued to the moment. From the public LocalView corpus of government meetings on YouTube — a county-level signal, not necessarily about this specific site.
Tax breaks & subsidies
source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77No 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.
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.
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 ECHONo reported violations as of last sync.
Air quality near this site
source: AirNowAir Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Salem), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.
Who lives nearby
source: Census ACS 2023Demographics 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 / NCESThe nearest public school, Richmond Elementary School in Salem, is 0.6 mi from this site (310 students). 2 public schools sit within a mile of the site.
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.