Oregon
DataCentersExposed tracks 73 AI data centers in Oregon — 17 operating and 4 in the pipeline — across 14 counties, drawing 4.9 GW of reported power demand from 16 tracked corporate operators. Oregon's data-center tax break cost local governments $26.9M in forgone revenue in FY2025.
Sources: Methodology, Coverage scorecard
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated May 29, 2026
Oregon at a glance
The largest footprint in Oregon belongs to Amazon.com, Inc., behind 21 tracked facilities. Meta Platforms, Inc., Flexential Corp., and Digital Realty Trust, Inc. round out the most active operators in the state. Many of these sites are filed under shell or project names rather than the parent's — our operator column resolves them back to the real corporate parent wherever the chain is documented.
Geographically, the buildout clusters: Washington County leads Oregon with 31 facilities and a composite risk score of 42/100. Crook County and Morrow County follow. Our county risk score weights project exposure (40%), power demand (30%), water draw (15%), and land footprint (15%); the full breakdown is shown on each county page.
Oregon is not done growing. 4 facilities are in the pipeline — proposed, permitted, or under construction — which is where residents still have a say at zoning hearings and in rate cases. Each pending project is a decision about land, water, electricity prices, and tax revenue that hasn't been finalized.
We also surface the accountability trail: 1 state bill mentioning data centers and 6 recent news items are tracked for Oregon below, pulled from LegiScan and GDELT and refreshed automatically. Legislation is linked to the counties and operators it names; news is classified by community sentiment.
2035 Buildout Outlook
Under the model's moderate-growth scenario (5%/yr annual load growth), PNNL's IM3 model sites about 14 standardized 36 MW campuses in Oregon by 2035 — roughly 504 MW of new electricity demand and ~487 M gal/yr of cooling water. Under the higher-growth scenario (15%/yr) that climbs to 79 campuses (2.8 GW). For scale, we currently track 73 real data centers in Oregon (4.9 GW of reported power).
- Low growth10360 MW · ~348 M gal/yr cooling water
- Moderate growth14504 MW · ~487 M gal/yr cooling water
- High growth391.4 GW · ~1.4 billion gal/yr cooling water
- Higher growth792.8 GW · ~2.8 billion gal/yr cooling water
The model assigns ~100% of these campuses' cooling to evaporative water cooling in Oregon (the rest to mechanical/air cooling), a split it derives from local water stress and wet-bulb temperature.
These are modeled candidate sites, not announced or permitted facilities. PNNL's IM3 model places identical 36 MW unit-campuses at feasible locations under each scenario — it shows where demand could concentrate, never a specific parcel. Figures use a market-gravity weight of 50. How the model works.
Top operators in Oregon
The taxpayer price tag
“For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, the County abated property taxes totaling $26,915,739 ... under the Enterprise Zone ... exemptions, respectively.”
- Enterprise Zone (Long-Term Rural EZ, ORS 285C.400) property-tax abatement — Crook County · FY2025$26.9M
- Enterprise Zone + Strategic Investment Program property-tax abatement — Morrow County · FY2025$28.8M
- Strategic Investment Program statewide property-tax exemption (ORS 307.123) — all SIP projects, heavily data-center driven · FY2025proj$681M cum
Program-wide cost of Oregon's data-center tax incentive(s), reported by the state — not attributable to a single facility. “Proj” = the state's own forward estimate; all other figures are realized/audited. Each links to its primary source.
Per-deal tax breaks on record
- Long-Term Rural Enterprise Zone (Morrow County School District 1)$16.7M
Specific incentive records we have matched in Oregon (state certified-exemption lists, agreements, and disclosures) — most have no public per-site dollar value, so a count is shown rather than an invented figure.
County risk leaderboard
| County | Facilities | Pipeline | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington County | 31 | 1 | 42 |
| Crook County | 10 | — | 34 |
| Morrow County | 13 | 1 | 25 |
| Umatilla County | 10 | 1 | 24 |
| Multnomah County | 4 | — | 8 |
| Wasco County | 3 | — | 8 |
| Deschutes County | 3 | — | 6 |
| Marion County | 1 | — | 6 |
| Linn County | 1 | — | 4 |
| Jackson County | 1 | — | 4 |
| Lane County | 1 | — | 4 |
| Clackamas County | 1 | — | 4 |
Pipeline & proposals
- Proposed1.2 GWAmazon Data CenterAmazon.com, Inc. · Morrow County
- ProposedAWS Arlington Data Center CampusAmazon Data Services, Inc. · Gilliam County County
- Under construction100 MWSabey Umatilla CampusSabey Data Centers · Umatilla County County
- Under constructionCrane Data CentersOperator unknown · Washington County
All tracked facilities
| Facility | Operator | Status | County | MW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Data Center | Amazon.com, Inc. | Proposed | Morrow | 1,200 |
| AWS Arlington Data Center Campus | Amazon Data Services, Inc. | Proposed | Gilliam County | — |
| Sabey Umatilla Campus | Sabey Data Centers | Under construction | Umatilla County | 100 |
| Crane Data Centers | — | Under construction | Washington | — |
| Meta Prineville | Meta Platforms, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Crook | 540 |
| AWS Hillsboro | Amazon.com, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Washington | 460 |
| Apple Prineville | Apple Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Crook | 320 |
| Digital Realty Hillsboro | Digital Realty Trust, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Washington | 220 |
| Google Data Center The Dalles Oregon | Alphabet Inc. | Wasco | 185 | |
| Oracle | Oracle Corporation | Mapped (unverified) | Washington | 94 |
| Flexential Portland - Hillsboro 5 | Flexential Corp. | Washington | 36 | |
| Digital Realty PDX10 Data Center | Digital Realty Trust, Inc. | Washington | 27 | |
| QTS Data Center - Hillsboro 1 | QTS Realty Trust, LLC | Washington | 24 | |
| Stack Infrastructure - POR02 | Stack Infrastructure, Inc. | Washington | 24 | |
| La Pine Data Center | Box Miner | Blocked | Deschutes | 20 |
| Flexential Portland - Hillsboro 2 | Flexential Corp. | Washington | 18 | |
| Flexential Portland - Hillsboro 1 | Flexential Corp. | Washington | 12 | |
| Flexential Portland - Hillsboro 3 | Flexential Corp. | Washington | 12 | |
| Flexential Portland - Hillsboro 4 | Flexential Corp. | Washington | 12 | |
| Portland Edge Data Center (EDC) campus | — | Washington | 9 | |
| Stack Infrastructure - POR01 | Stack Infrastructure, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Washington | 4 |
| Adobe Data Center | Prime Data Centers | Mapped (unverified) | Washington | — |
| Aligned DC - PDX-01 | Aligned Energy Holdings, LP | Mapped (unverified) | Washington | — |
| Amazon Web Services | Amazon.com, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Morrow | — |
| Amazon Web Services | Amazon.com, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Umatilla | — |
| Amazon Web Services | Amazon.com, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Morrow | — |
| Amazon Web Services | Amazon.com, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Morrow | — |
| Amazon Web Services | Amazon.com, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Umatilla | — |
| Amazon Web Services | Amazon.com, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Umatilla | — |
| Amazon Web Services | Amazon.com, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Morrow | — |
| Amazon Web Services | Amazon.com, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Umatilla | — |
| Amazon Web Services | Amazon.com, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Umatilla | — |
| Amazon Web Services | Amazon.com, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Morrow | — |
| Amazon Web Services | Amazon.com, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Morrow | — |
| Amazon Web Services | Amazon.com, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Umatilla | — |
| Amazon Web Services | Amazon.com, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Morrow | — |
| Amazon Web Services | Amazon.com, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Morrow | — |
| Amazon Web Services | Amazon.com, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Umatilla | — |
| Amazon Web Services | Amazon.com, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Umatilla | — |
| Amazon Web Services | Amazon.com, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Morrow | — |
| Amazon Web Services | Amazon.com, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Umatilla | — |
| Apple | Apple Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Crook | — |
| Apple | Apple Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Crook | — |
| BendTel | — | Mapped (unverified) | — | — |
| Clackamas ESD Datacenter | — | Mapped (unverified) | — | — |
| Corepacket PDX-1 | — | Mapped (unverified) | — | — |
| Crane DC - Portland | — | Mapped (unverified) | Washington | — |
| Date Center West - Eugene | — | Lane | — | |
| Date Center West - Eugene | — | Jackson | — | |
| Digital Fortress - Portland 1 | Interactive | Multnomah | — | |
| Digital Fortress - Portland 2 | — | Washington | — | |
| Digital Fortress - Portland 3 | — | Washington | — | |
| Digital Realty PDX11 Data Center | Digital Realty Trust, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Washington | — |
| Digital Realty PDX11 Data Center | Digital Realty Trust, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Washington | — |
| EdgeConneX - Portland | EdgeConneX, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Washington | — |
| EdgeConneX Hillsboro (EDCPOR02) | — | Mapped (unverified) | — | — |
| EdgeConneX Portland (EDCPOR01) | — | Mapped (unverified) | — | — |
| Flexential Portland - Hillsboro 4 Expansion | Flexential Corp. | Mapped (unverified) | Washington | — |
| Fort Rock DC | — | Deschutes | — | |
| Alphabet Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Wasco | — | |
| Google Taylor Lake Data Center | Alphabet Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Wasco | — |
| H5 DC - Portland | H5 Data Centers | Multnomah | — | |
| Hemlock Plaza | — | Mapped (unverified) | — | — |
| LCOG Park Place | — | Mapped (unverified) | — | — |
| LightPoint Corporation | — | Mapped (unverified) | — | — |
| Meta | Meta Platforms, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Crook | — |
| Meta | Meta Platforms, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Crook | — |
| Meta | Meta Platforms, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Crook | — |
| Meta | Meta Platforms, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Crook | — |
| Meta | Meta Platforms, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Crook | — |
| Meta | Meta Platforms, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Crook | — |
| NTT RagingWire DC - Hillsboro | NTT Global Data Centers | Washington | — | |
| OVHcloud - Hillsboro | — | Mapped (unverified) | Washington | — |
| Opus Interactive Hillsboro (HIO01) | Interactive | Mapped (unverified) | — | — |
| Oregon State Data Center | — | Mapped (unverified) | Marion | — |
| Ptc | — | Mapped (unverified) | Linn | — |
| Ptor1 | — | Mapped (unverified) | — | — |
| Percheron DC | — | Mapped (unverified) | Morrow | — |
| Percheron DC | — | Mapped (unverified) | Morrow | — |
| Pittock Block | — | Mapped (unverified) | Multnomah | — |
| Prime Data Centers (Oregon) | Prime Data Centers | Mapped (unverified) | Washington | — |
| QTS Data Center - Hillsboro 2 | QTS Realty Trust, LLC | Mapped (unverified) | Washington | — |
| QTS Data Center - Hillsboro 3 | QTS Realty Trust, LLC | Mapped (unverified) | Washington | — |
| Roundhouse Data Center | — | Withdrawn | Hood River | — |
| Siemens EDA - HDC / Data Center | — | Mapped (unverified) | Clackamas | — |
| Stack Infrastructure - POR03 | Stack Infrastructure, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Washington | — |
| TGN Hillsboro | — | Mapped (unverified) | Washington | — |
| US Signal - OR01 Bend | — | Deschutes | — | |
| University of Oregon | — | Mapped (unverified) | — | — |
| Verizon Hillsboro (Tanasbourne) Data Center | Verizon Communications Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Washington | — |
| amazon web services | Amazon.com, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Morrow | — |